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tutor in accordance with the lex Iulia et Titia and decrees of the Senate. Given ad 247.

I, Aurelia Ammonaria, have submitted this. I, Aurelius Plutamnon, concur in this petition.

So long as your proper guardian not be removed from guardianship, I give you Plutammon as tutor in accordance with the lex Iulia et Titia and decrees of the Senate. Since the governor’s response is conditional, he can issue an • order directly in response to the petition, without holding a fact-finding hearing first (cf. the use of interdicts, discussed in Chapter 13). The law mentioned at the end dated from the mid first cen- • tury bc and gave governors the authority to make these appointments within their provinces. Here we have a single document written by several persons • and even in multiple languages. The first and last parts (the formal petition, perhaps written by a professional scribe, and the governor’s response) are in Latin; the second and third (personal affirmations) are in Greek.

[18] FIRA 3.47

Antonius Silvanus, cavalryman of the first Mauritanean troop of Thracians, assistant to the prefect, squad of Valerius, made this will. Let Marcus Antonius Satrianus, my son, be sole heir of all my goods, both in camp and at home; all others are hereby disinherited. Let him accept my estate within 100

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