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Proceedings before the prefect Junius on accounts and a seized house TM 32305Oxyrhynchosspätes IV

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Record of court proceedings before the prefect Junius, in which a petitioner complains that the councillor Asklepiades acted inhumanely over the settlement of accounts and seized his house by force, asking that Asklepiades be made to settle the account honestly and return the house. The prefect orders arbitrators to draw up the account and rules that once the true debt is paid the petitioner is freed from liability. Late 4th century AD, Oxyrhynchus.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] […] Asklepiades, member of the city council […] having used […] at the accounting office, he did […] being carried away by great inhumanity […] the drawing up of the account with good faith and all exactness, to settle it with him, trusting that not […] his […] authority […] of Ptolemaios and Ambrosios, members of the city council […] that the aforementioned Asklepiades be compelled to come to the accounting office and with all good faith and conscience to settle the account with me, so that free from abuse […] safety for me through your care, my lord prefect, and further through the same help to restore to me the house which he took from me before judgment and by force, or if he still now behaves shamelessly, that he be sent to your magnificence, and I shall be grateful to your splendour for ever. Junius, the most illustrious prefect, said: "Arbitrators chosen between the parties shall draw up the account, and when what is truly owed has been paid, you will not be troubled beyond the just debt, but, acknowledging what is determined, you will be freed according to the laws from liability for the management of the affairs."

The logothesion was an office where accounts of public or administrative management were audited and settled. The opening of the petition is badly damaged, so the exact relationship between the parties is unclear.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Judicial Proceedings). 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.51.3627

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