Petition to Scholastici
Fragmentary petition submitted by a soldier, Flavius Abraham, to at least four scholastici (or to one scholasticus bearing more than four names)
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 37333
Petition of the soldier Flavius Abraamios to scholastici TM 37333UnknownVIth century A.D.
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Fragmentary petition from a soldier, Flavius Abraamios, to a group of scholastici (legal advocates acting as officials), named Phileas, Epimachos, Theophilos and Ammoninos. The surviving preamble praises the emperor's just judgment, which punishes the wicked and vindicates the good, before the damaged account of the complaint breaks off. It dates to the 6th century AD.
In English machine translation
[…] to Phileas, Epimachos, Theophilos, Ammoninos, scholastici, administering […]
from Flavius Abraamios, soldier […]
[…] the gloriously victorious and triumphant master of the whole inhabited world […]
[…] just judgment, knowing well that without it being found, a helmsman […]
[…] punishes the wicked with penalties, and the good […] the due vindication […]
[…] of […] ways, always being, and in many matters and from many sent down […]
[…] this […] the matters concerning his […]
[…] and […] irregularity, I do not know […] by what craft […]
[…] not well […]
[…] ordered (?) […]
[… ? lines lost …]
Scholastikos denotes a legally trained advocate, often serving as an official or judge; the names may belong to four men or to a single man with several names. The petitioner's name Abraamios is a form of Abraham.
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 ΣΧΟΛΑΣΤΙΚΟΙ). 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.15.739
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