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p.brem.48 30. Okt. 116Hermopolis ?

Brief des Herodes an den Herakleios, den ἐπίτροπος des Apollonios via HGV-meta

Letter from Herodes to Herakleios, steward of the strategos Apollonios. A letter from Herodes to Herakleios, steward of the strategos Apollonios, reporting his dangerous storm-tossed journey to Alexandria and his delivery of a letter to Claudia Apia, whose reply he awaits. He also asks Herakleios to buy ready-cut timber for a building from the Oxyrhynchite nome and promises to pray for him at the Sarapeion. machine translation

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Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

Ἡρώδης Ἡρακλείωι τῶι τιμιωτάτωι χαίρειν. γίνωσκέ με τῆι τρίτηι μηνὸς κατηντηκέναι εἰς Ἀλεξάνδρειαν καίπερ πολλὰ ἐκινδύνευσα ἀπὸ χειμῶνος σφοδροῦ κατὰ τοῦ βίου, ἀναδεδωκέναι δὲ αὐτῆι τῆι τρίτηι Ἀπίᾳ τὴν ἀπὸ τοῦ φίλου Ἀπολλῶτος ἐπιστολήν, ἧι εἶπον ὅτι κατὰ πάροδον ἀκούσας ὁ Ἀχιλλεὺς ὁ μέλλοντός μου φίλωι περὶ τοῦ καταπλεῖν ἐγγὺς ὡς ἀκηκοότος τὸν υἱὸν ἀσθενεῖν καὶ νῦν φημι σὺν θεῶι αὐτὸν ἐρρωμένον. ἐρωτῶ σε οὖν …[…]… Ἀχιλλεῖ, ὃ ἂν δόξῃ σοι, …[…]με ἀναδεδωκότα τὴν ἐπιστολὴν …[…]……μοι, μεθʼ ἡμέρας δὲ […]… προσκαρτερεῖν αὐτῆι, ἵνα λάβω ἀντιφώνησιν. συνέτυχον δὲ καί μου ἀδελφῶι Ἱερακίωνι, ὡς ἔγραψά σοι διὰ Κάστορος τοῦ φίλου. εἴ με ἀπηρτίκει ἡ Κλαυδία Ἀπία τῆι ἀντιφωνήσει, οὐκ εἶχον ὑπόθεσιν ἐνθάδε ῥέμβεσθαι. ὑπομιμνήσκω δέ σε περὶ τῆς ξυλείας τῆς οἰκοδομῆς, εἴ πως δυνασθήσεις ἀπὸ τοῦ Ὀξυρυγχείτου ἀπηρτισμένην ὠνήσασθαι, ἵνα μὴ ἐμπέσωμεν ὕστερον εἰς τοὺς χειροτέχνας. γίνωσκε δέ, ὅτι ἐκ διεραμάτων σπουδαίως κατῆλθον πολλοῦ ναύλου. πρὸ πάντων αὔριον τὸ προσκύνημά σου ποιήσω ἐν τῶι Σαραπείωι, ἐπεὶ σήμερον οὐκ ἀνέβην ἀπὸ ἁδρῶν σκυλμῶν καὶ κινδύνων. ἔρρωσο, φίλτατε. Ἁθὺρ γ ὥρᾳ η. Ἱερακίων ἀσπάζομαί σε, γλυκύτατε. Ἡρακλείωι ἐπιτρόπωι Ἀπολλωνίου στρατηγοῦ.

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EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
Herodes to the most honoured Herakleios, greetings. Know that on the third of the month I arrived at Alexandria, although I ran great danger to my life from a violent storm, and that on the same third I delivered to Apia the letter from our friend Apollos, in which I told her that Achilles, hearing in passing that I was about to sail down, (wished to sail down) soon, having heard that his son was ill; and now I say that, with god's help, he is well. I ask you therefore […] to Achilles, whatever seems good to you, […] me having delivered the letter […] to me, and after […] days […] to wait on her, so that I may receive a reply. I also met my brother Hierakion, as I wrote to you through our friend Kastor. If Claudia Apia had settled things with me by her reply, I would have had no reason to wander about here. I remind you about the timber for the building, whether you will perhaps be able to buy it ready-finished from the Oxyrhynchite nome, so that we do not later fall into the hands of the craftsmen. Know that I came down in haste from the ferry-crossings (?) at great fare. Above all, tomorrow I will make your act of homage in the Sarapeion, since today I did not go up because of severe troubles and dangers. Farewell, dearest. Hathyr 3, 8th hour. I, Hierakion, greet you, sweetest one. (Address) To Herakleios, steward of Apollonios the strategos.

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