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p.berl.moeller.10v III
Letter from Herakleides to Pappos about overdue work on the estates. Private letter from Herakleides to Pappos, written in the 3rd century AD, about agricultural work on estates. Herakleides reports, while politely deferring to Pappos' expertise, that the seasonal tasks on the plantations have not yet been done and that weeds have grown because of it. machine translation
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Inscription #1
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Transcription
[v]
Ἡρακλείδης Πάππωι τῶι
τιμιωτάτωι χαίρειν.
τὸ γράφειν σοι εἰδότι μᾶλλον
ἐμοῦ ἑκάστου ἔργου τὸν καιρὸν περιττὸν ἡγοῦμαι. πλὴν
ἵνα μὴ δοκοίην ἀμελεῖν,
γράφω σοι, ὅτι καιρὸν ἐχόντων τῶν κτημάτων καὶ ὀφειλόντων ἤδη καὶ κατεστάλθαι ἤδη γὰρ καὶ πρὸς
τὸ ἀναλημφθῆναί ἐστιν
οὐδὲν οὔπω τούτων ἐποιήσαμεν πρὸς τῷ καὶ πλείστας
βοτάνας ἄνωθεν αὐτῶν
πεποιηκότων διὰ τὸ μὴ κατεστάλθαι αὐτὰ καὶ πεπλ…
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[verso]
Herakleides to the most honoured Pappos, greetings.
To write to you, who know better than I the right season for each task, I consider superfluous. However,
so that I may not seem to be neglectful,
I write to you that, although the estates (vineyards?) are in season and ought already to have been pruned (?), for it is already time also for
tying them up,
we have not yet done any of these things, besides the fact that they have also produced a great deal of
weeds above them
because they have not been pruned (?), and […]
[…]
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 30658 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.berl.moeller;;10v tier-1
- HGV-Text 30658 tier-1
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