Petition of a soldier about rents on confiscated land bought at auction TM 9190Arsinoites

[…] To Gaius Statilius Maximus, the most excellent epistrategos, from Gaius Julius Apollinarius, soldier of the first cohort of Apameni, century of Herakleides. I bought, my lord, by public auction in the past […] year of our lord Antoninus, in Phamenoth, in the plain of the village of Kerkesoucha of the Arsinoite nome, division of Herakleides, 6 arouras of grain land which formerly belonged to my father Mystes son of Aphrodisios and to my brother Ninos, and which were confiscated to the treasury because they had been partners in the sitologia (grain collection) entrusted to them; and I paid the price for them on the spot. Since, then, those who previously farmed the aforesaid arouras, Kastor son of H[…] and his son […]des, who have held them up to now, refuse to pay me the rents, I ask, if it seems good to you, that you order a letter to be written to the strategos of the Arsinoite nome, division of Herakleides, to compel them to pay me the rents and to withdraw for the future from the arouras confirmed to me by you, my lord, so that I may have received benefaction.