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A public notice issued by Aurelius Agathos Daimon, strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, on the orders of the procurator Flavius Eudaimon. It instructs any soldier staying in the nome on the excuse of the sowing season to report within five days, or else be tracked down and sent to the procurator.
The text breaks off at the end. A procurator (epitropos) was a high-ranking imperial financial official; 'most excellent' (kratistos) is his formal rank title.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Ordinanza dello stratego). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Αὐρήλιος Ἀγαθὸς Δαίμων στρατηγὸς Ὀξυρυγχίτου ἐξ ἐγκελεύσεως Φλαυίου Εὐδαίμονος τοῦ κρατίστου ἐπιτρόπου παραγγέλλεται τῷ ὄντι ἐν τῷ νομῷ στρατιώτῃ προφάσει τῆς κατασπορᾶς ἐμφανῆ ἑαυτὸν καταστῆσαι ἢ εἰ μὴ τοῦτο ποιήσειεν ἐντὸς τῶν ὁρισθεισῶν ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ ἡμερῶν πέντε ἀναζητηθέντα αὐτὸ…
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