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End of a petition from a man named Aurelius Ph[…] to an official. He asks that a lawless man be ordered to return household goods he holds, to stop harassing him, and to answer for a serious outrage. The petition dates to the 5th century AD.
The beginning is lost and much of the right side is restored. The petitioner calls himself 'wretched and of modest means' (metrios), a stock self-description in late antique petitions.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Petition). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
καὶ ἐπειδὴ[…] παρʼ αὐτοῦ δέομαι …[…] ὥστε κελεύειν τὸν παράνομον τοῦτον πρωτοτύπως μὲν ἀποδοῦναι ὅσα ἔχων τυγχάνει ἡμέτερα σκεύη καὶ μηκέτι ἐκ παραλόγου ὀχλῆσαι με προφάσει μηδεμιᾷ καὶ λόγον δοῦναι τῆς τηλικαύτης ὕβρεως τῷ ἀθλίῳ μετρίῳ, πρὸς τὸ ἀβίαστον ἐμὲ εἶναι, κύριε. Αὐρήλιος…
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