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Report of a public meeting with acclamations for Dionysios and Diosko|ros TM 31732Oxyrhynchosspätes III

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Fragment of a report of a public meeting at Oxyrhynchus, recording the acclamations shouted by the crowd in honour of Dionysios and Dioskoros, and mentioning Flavius Diosko|ros and the prefect. It dates to the late 3rd century AD.

In English machine translation

[… 4 lines lost …] […] Okeanos Dionysios, Okeanos Dioskoros, but […] […] Dionysios, friend of the council, Diosko[ros] […] […] Okeanos Dionysios, Okeanos Dioskoros […] […] Flavius Diosko|ros, having become […] […] our most eminent prefect in all […] [… 1 line lost …]

"Okeane" (literally "Ocean!") was a stock acclamation shouted at public meetings, here hailing the honorands as boundless. "Friend of the council" (philoboule) is likewise a standard acclamation epithet.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Report of a Public Meeting). 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.10.1305

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · spätes III · Oxyrhynchos

[… 4 lines lost …] […]Ὠκεανὲ Διονύσιε, Ὠκεανὲ Διόσκορε, ἀλλ…[…] […] Διονύσιε φιλόβουλε, Διόσκορε[…] […]Ὠκεανὲ Διονύσιε, Ὠκεανὲ Διόσκορε […] […] Φλαύιος Διόσκορος γενόμενος […] […]ὁ διασημότατος ἡμῶν ἡγεμὼν ἐν πᾶσι πρ[…] [… 1 line lost …]