Order for Arrest
Order for arrest of Pachoumis, addressed to the comarchs of another village, Teruthis, by a beneficiarius.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 31340
Order to the komarchs of Teruthis to hand over Pachoumis TM 31340Oxyrhynchos3rd-4th CE
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A short order from a beneficiarius, a soldier detailed to police duty, to the village heads (komarchs) of Teruthis. It tells them to hand over Pachoumis son of Pachoumis, whom they had detained, to the officer's assistant, and to come along and state any justified complaint they have against him. It comes from Oxyrhynchus in the 3rd or early 4th century AD.
In English machine translation
From the beneficiarius on duty.
To the komarchs of the village of Teruthis. Hand over to the assistant sent to you Pachoumis son of Pachoumis, whom you detained today and brought down into your village, he being a citizen. If you have any reasonable claim against him, come up together with him and state it. But see that you do not detain the assistant. Signed by me.
"Citizen" (politēs) probably marks Pachoumis as a resident of the city of Oxyrhynchus rather than of the village. Although catalogued as an order for arrest, the text orders the release of a man already detained into the official's custody.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Order for Arrest). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.oxy.1.65
παρὰ τοῦ στατίζοντος βενεφικιαρίου κωμάρχαις κώμης Τερύθεως. παράδοτε τῷ ἀποσταλέντι ὑπηρέτῃ Παχοῦμιν Παχούμιος ὃν κατεσχήκατε σήμερον καὶ κατηνέγκατε ἐν τῇ κώμῃ ὑμῶν πολίτην ὄντα. εἰ δὲ ἔχετε εὐλογίαν τινὰ πρὸς αὐτὸν ἀνέρχεσθε ἅμα αὐτῷ καὶ λέγετε. ἀλλʼ ὅρα μὴ κατάσχητε τὸν ὑπηρέ…