Petition, Roman CE ii [MIR]
To the prefect of Egypt concerning officials who are accused of behaving wrongly against veterans and their sons; mentioned is an earlier decision of Sempronius Liberalis about duties of officials
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Petition of a veteran's son to the prefect against magistrates' nominations TM 764729Roman CE ii [MIR]
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Petition from Quintus Marinus Claudianus, son of a veteran, to the prefect of Egypt complaining that local magistrates use violence and ignore the prefect's letters in nominations and elections to public office. He cites an imperial constitution freeing veterans and their sons from harassment, and appends a constitution of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus and a memorandum of the former prefect Sempronius Liberalis on time limits and order of service.
In English machine translation
[…] lost
[…]
[…] the magistrates [act?] with self-chosen authority, by their violence […]
[…] your incomparable prefecture, how they set themselves against its letters, both concerning […]
[…] in nominations and elections, and the constitution of our lords the Emperors, which […]
you are not unaware of, which frees the veterans and us their sons from all violence and harassment […]
undisturbed, the benefaction from you, my lord, so that I may be helped. Farewell. I, Quintus Marinus [Claudianus, have submitted this.]
And so that the time limits and the orders of service may remain according to the original undertaking in the case of [those …]
who undertake and are nominated, ⟦I have set out⟧ I have appended for you the constitution of the deified Marcus Aurelius [Antoninus]
and Lucius Aurelius Verus and the memorandum of Sempronius Liberalis, former prefect.
⟦It is as follows:⟧
I have appended for you a constitution of the Emperors and the memorandum of Sempronius Liberalis, former prefect,
concerning the observance of the time limits and orders of service according to the original undertakings
in the case of those nominated and those undertaking, so that, if it please your Fortune, you may order
that they be observed for me too. It is as follows:
The postscript about the appended documents is written twice, the first draft partly deleted. Sempronius Liberalis was prefect of Egypt around AD 154-159.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Petition, Roman CE ii [MIR]). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
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