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A petition from Philippos and Ptolemaios to the strategos Aphthonetos, following up an earlier complaint against a certain Pausanias. Since the strategos had already ordered the local epistates to send Pausanias up, they ask him to summon both parties, examine the charges and compel Pausanias to give them justice. It comes from the Arsinoite nome in the later 3rd century BC.
The strategos was the chief official of the nome. The epistates was a village superintendent, and the gap after his title probably held the verb of request ("we ask").
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Correspondence of Aphthonetos. A 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.
Ἀφθονήτωι στρατηγῶι παρὰ Φιλίππου καὶ Πτολεμαίου. εἰσεδώκαμέν σοι ἔντευξιν κατὰ Παυσανίου περὶ ὧν ἐνεκαλοῦμεν αὐτῶι. σοῦ δὲ γράψαντος τῶι ἐπιστάτηι παραπέμψαι αὐτὸν …… οὖν σε εἰσκαλέσασθαι ἡμᾶς καὶ ἐπισκεψάμενον ἃ διὰ τῆς ἐντεύξεως αὐτῶι ἐγκεκλήκαμεν ἐπαναγκάσαι αὐτὸν τὸ δίκαιον …
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