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Letter from Heroninos to Heraklas about a claim by Pesouas concerning a donkey TM 31819Theadelphia (Arsinoites)2. Hälfte III

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A private letter from Aurelius Heroninos to Aurelius Heraklas about a dispute over a donkey: Heroninos asks Heraklas to persuade a certain Pesouas to drop an unfounded claim, warning that otherwise he will take the matter, with the receipts of the centurion Dioskoros, as far as the epistrategos. It dates to the second half of the 3rd century AD, from Theadelphia in the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

[recto] Aurelius Heroninos to Aurelius Heraklas, most honoured, greetings. Knowing your goodwill, for this reason I have written to you. I want you to know that it was not a donkey-driver who carried them up, but they took a donkey for themselves, and you too can find out whose the donkey is. For this reason I have written to you, because Pesouas has made his claim in vain. If therefore you can, as a favour to me, persuade Pesouas to drop it, you will do well, remembering me, so that we do not cause trouble for the strategos. But if he is not willing, tell Pesouas himself not to blame me; for I am not going to keep silent toward him, even if I had to carry the receipts of Dioskoros the centurion all the way to the epistrategos. I pray for your health. [verso] Deliver to Heraklas.

The strategos was the chief official of the nome, and the epistrategos a higher regional official above him. The exact background of the donkey dispute is not explained in the letter.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Heroninos an Heraklas). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 2. Hälfte III · Theadelphia (Arsinoites)

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