1I thank you, my lord, for having granted without delay both the right of Quirites to the freedwomen of a lady closely connected with me and Roman citizenship to Harpocras, my masseur. 1But when I was giving his age and property, as you had instructed, I was advised by those more expert that I ought first to have obtained Alexandrian citizenship for him, and then Roman, since he was an Egyptian. 2I, however, because I believed there was no difference between Egyptians and other foreigners, had been content to write to you only this: that he had been freed by a foreign woman and that his patroness had died long ago.
2Yet I do not complain of this ignorance of mine, through which it has come about that I am indebted to you more than once for the same man. 2I ask, therefore, that, so that I may enjoy your kindness lawfully, you grant him Alexandrian citizenship as well. 2His age and property, so that nothing may again delay your indulgence, I have sent to those freedmen of yours to whom you had told me to send them.