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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 September 2012
M. Jean Schérer, the editor of P Fouad 21, suggested that the question about the πολιτεία of the missicii was decided the same day as the question of the legionaries in P Yale inv. 1528, and that the space before εἶπον in 1. 11 contained very probably the name of the prefect Tuscus.
In Fouad 21, lines 11–14, Tuscus seems to repeat what he said in P Yale inv. 1528, lines 17 ff.
Comparing P Yale 1528 with P Fouad 21, I would suggest that ἀγωγή does not mean ‘discipline’ but the actio, i.e., the claim of the soldiers, and I assume also that the legionaries in P Yale 1528 are veterans of the legions and not legionaries, because in both documents the prefect spoke to the same people repeating the same things.
2 See l. 11.
3 Welles, who could not know the evidence of P Fouad 21, assumed that the legionaries were active soldiers and connected the conclusion of Tuscus with the special duties of the active soldiers, quoting Bell, CAH 1934, 286 f. and Lesquier, L'Armée romaine, 1918, 233–243. I do not think that veterans of the legions (see p. xx) acted for other Co-veterani in the χώρα and that the ἀντίγραφον ἐντυχίας, audience (see Welles, l.c. p. 44 f.), could be used for purposes of propaganda. I suppose that the veterans of legions went personally to Alexandria and were deeply interested in bringing back to the χώρα an άντίγραφον ύπομνηματισμού to show it to the στρατηγός and to the authorities of the nomos, not to their comrades: contra Wenger, Sav. Zeit. 59, 1919, 376 ffGoogle Scholar. and chiefly p. 382 ff. following Welles l.c. p. 44, n. 7. If the veterans acted as representatives of other Co-veterani we would have to deal with συστατικά, while the prefect is only requiring that veterans present their claim each for himself χωρὶς καὶ χωρὶς as veterans already made, P Yale inv. 1528, 1. 11.
4 See signature at the end of P Fouad 21; 9 letters ἔγραφα.