A famous market takes place two miles from our village. Those who stay there to attend the market do not [however] remain at the marketplace for all the fifteen days – they leave it and turn up in our village and compel us to provide them with quartering and most of the other things for their entertainment without offering payment. In addition to these, soldiers who are despatched elsewhere, leave their proper routes and appear among us, and likewise press us hard to furnish them quartering and provisions without paying anything. For the most part because of the thermal springs, the provincial governors but also your procurators come here to stay. We greet the authorities in a most hospitable way by necessity, but as we could not put up with the others, we have on many occasions appealed to the governors of Thracia, and they have – in accordance with the imperial instructions – ordered that we shall be undisturbed … For some time, the orders of the governors held force…But as time went on, numerous persons who despise our private status have again ventured to stick close. So since we can no longer sustain these burdens…we beg you, invincible Augustus, to order by your sacred rescript that everyone shall keep to his proper route, that they shall not leave the other villages and come to us and compel us to offer them provisions at our expense, and that we shall not quarter those who are not entitled to [such service].