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A petition addressed to King Ptolemy by a villager complaining that Horos son of Harpaesis, a cowherd from the same village, broke into the petitioner's house, beat him and (apparently) drove him from the village. The petitioner asks the king to order the strategos Diophanes and the chief of police Apimenes to bring Horos before Diophanes for appropriate punishment. It comes from Magdola in the Arsinoite nome, 221 BC.
The petitioner's name is largely lost. Petitions of this type (enteuxeis) were formally addressed to the king but handled by the strategos.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Plainte pour coups). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
βασιλεῖ Πτολεμαίωι χαίρειν Σι…[…]εμφ[…]ηι. ἀδικοῦμαι ὑπὸ Ὥρου τοῦ Ἁρπαήσιος βουκόλου ἐκ τῆς αὐτῆς κώμης …[…]τοῦ γὰρ β ἔτους, Τῦβι ϛ, εἰσελθὼν εἰς τὴν ἐμὴν οἰκίαν οὗ οἰκ[…]πληγάς μοι ἐνέβαλεν καὶ […] με ἐκ τῆς κώμης παρὰ τὸ συμφ […] τῶι πα[…]του καὶ ἐπ[…]υ. δέομαι οὖν σου, βασιλεῦ…
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