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
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[…] 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 […]
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"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.