Letter of the Praetorian Prefect
Letter of the Praetorian Prefect to an official of the province of Arcadia, following an earlier text which is too faded to be read
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Letter of the praetorian prefects to the governor of Arcadia TM 37332ArkadiaVIth century A.D.
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Fragmentary official letter or decree of the praetorian prefects, headed by Flavius Pompeius Paulus Andreas Eudoxios and including Flavius Faustus, addressed to the governor of the province of Arcadia in Egypt. It concerns complaints connected with the town councils and their lack of means. It dates to the 6th century AD.
In English machine translation
Flavius Pompeius Paulus Andreas Eudoxios Konst[…], [the most magnificent prefect of the sacred] praetoria and ex-consul, Flavius Faustus and Flavius […] [to Flavius] […], [governor] of Arcadia.
Neither the improper and unjustifiable […] of the council-chambers (?) being […] to admit, and […] the complaints brought against them, preventing (?) […] it has been established; having considered these matters […] now they complain of their lack of means, and if […] […] and the […] to those deemed worthy […] […] on each of the most pious […]
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The records disagree on the nature of the text: one calls it a petition to the dux of Arcadia, another a letter of the praetorian prefect. The heading supports an official letter from the prefects. APIS notes it follows an earlier, now illegible text.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Petition to the Dux Arcadiae (?)). 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.mich.15.738
Φλάβιος Πομπήιος Παῦλος Ἀνδρέας Εὐδόξιος Κωνστ[…]ὁ μεγαλοπρεπέστατος ἔπαρχος τῶν ἱερῶν πραιτωρίων καὶ ἀπὸ ὑπάτων Φλάουιος Φαῦστος καὶ Φλάβιος[…]Φλαβίῳ […] ἄρχοντι Ἀρκαδίας. οὔτε τὰς ἀτόπους καὶ ἀπροφασίστους […] βουλευτηρίων γιγνομένους προσίεσθαι καὶ […] μέμψεις τὰς ἐπαγομένας α…