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p.berl.brash.19 VI
Fragment eines Bittbriefes via HGV-meta
Fragment of a letter of supplication to the landowner Dorotheos. Fragment of a sixth-century begging letter addressed in elaborate flattering language to Dorotheos, the writer's landowner. The writer, ill with dysentery, bedridden and unable to work, with small children, asks his master to extend a hand of justice and help. machine translation
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TM 36260.
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- Fragment eines Bittbriefes HGV-meta unbekanntVI
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Transcription
[v]
[…]αγαθῷ δεσπότῃ καὶ φιλανθρωπευεργέτῃ[…]
[…]…ον φιλοπτωχοτάτην μεγαλοπρεπ[…]
[…] Δωροθέῳ ἐμῷ γεούχῳ […]
[…]κος… λαμπροῦ ὑμῶν[…]
[…]σοιω φυλάττοι τὴν ὑμετέραν[…]
[…]λαμροτάτων καὶ τριποθήτων α…[…]…ης[…]
[…]μέλιτος γλυκίων ῥέεν αὐδὴ ἐπὶ μήκιστον χρόνον[…]
[…]αν ἀναθάλλουσαν τυχεῖν ὅσων ἐρᾶτε α[…]
[…]τρόποις καὶ καιροῖς· εἰς τί μὴν οὖν δέσποτα[…]
[…]μενον καὶ παναγαθοσύνης ἔργον τῆς η[…]
[…]ου μεγάλης τοῦ δεσπότου θεοῦ καὶ παμβασιλέως[…]
[…]… χεῖρα ὄρεξαί μοι δικαιοσύνης καὶ εὐλαβοῦ[…]
[…]τυγχάνω κακούμενος μετὰ τῶν δούλων ὑμῶν[…]
[…]ων ἀνακείμενος τυγχάνω δυσεντερικὰ σπάσματα[…]
[…]ἀλγηδόνας ἀσηχής· διόλου ὑπάρχων μαλι[…]
[…]μετὰ τῶν νηπίων τέκνων ἐφʼ ὅτι ἄπρακτος[…]
[…]…ικὸς ἐκ χειρῶν ἀπραγίας ἵνα ὁ θεὸς ἀντ[…]
[r]
[…]στήσω ὑμῖν διὰ παντὸς ἐν πολλοῖς δὲ καιροῖς[…]
[…]ου †Translations (1)
[verso]
[…] to the good master and benefactor of mankind […]
[…] most loving of the poor, magnificent […]
[…] to Dorotheos, my landowner […]
[…] your illustrious […]
[…] may he guard your […]
[…] of the most illustrious and thrice-longed-for […]
[…] 'from whose tongue flowed speech sweeter than honey' for the longest time […]
[…] flourishing again, to obtain all that you desire […]
[…] in manners and seasons. For what then, master […]
[…] and a work of all-goodness of the […]
[…] great […] of the Lord God and King of all […]
[…] to stretch out to me a hand of justice and piety (?) […]
[…] I happen to be suffering ill-treatment along with your slaves […]
[…] I happen to be lying in bed (with) dysenteric spasms […]
[…] pains, without letup (?); being altogether […]
[…] with my infant children, because without work (?) […]
[…] from the hands of idleness, so that God […]
[recto]
[…] I will present (?) to you always, and on many occasions […]
[…] †
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 36260 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.berl.brash;;19 tier-1
- HGV-Text 36260 tier-1
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