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p.brem.53 12. Juni 114Hermopolis (?)
Ein Geschäftsbrief an Dioskoras via HGV-meta
Letter to Dioskoras demanding payment for wine and produce. A business letter, probably from the strategos Apollonios or a landowner of his circle, to Dioskoras, who farms the writer's lands, demanding payment for wine, wheat and lentils and complaining of his conduct and of unauthorized payments to Eutychos. It is dated 12 June 114 AD, probably from Hermopolis. machine translation
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- Ein Geschäftsbrief an Dioskoras HGV-meta Hermopolis (?)12. Juni 114
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Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[r,1]
[…] Διοσκορᾶι τῷ ἰδίωι
[…]πλεῖστα χαίρειν.
[…]νενοημένον καὶ …ευ[…]
[…] ἀποδοῦναι νῦν μοι
[…] ἔχοντά σου ὅλον τὸν
λόγον, οὗ καὶ ἀντίγραφον ἔχεις. διάβηθι
οὖν εἰς Ἑπτακωμίαν μετʼ αὐτοῦ, μετὰ καὶ
τοῦ Εὐτύχου, ὃν ἐποίησας κύριον τῶν
ἐμῶν. σύμπαιζε δʼ αὐτῶι, καὶ αὐτὸν δὲ
ἄγαγε μετὰ σεαυτοῦ ἐκεῖ. καὶ μέμνησο
ὅτι ὅσων ἔγραψας προσθήσεσθαι τιμήν,
τούτων ἀποδοῦναί σε δεῖ καθʼ ἣν ἔγραψας
κ…ε…[…]…[…]…[…]το τὴν τιμὴν τοῦ πυροῦ καὶ τὸν
φακὸν …[…]αι καὶ τὰ ἄλλα […]ἐγὼ γὰρ οὔτε τὸν ἄροτρον ἔσχον οὔτε εἶπόν σοι αὐτῶι δοῦναί τι. καὶ εἰ καθεστάκειν δέ, οὐκ ἂν εἶχες αὐτῷ δοῦναι
χωρὶς ἐμοῦ ἢ ἐξουσίας, εἰ εὐνοεῖς μοι,
οὐδὲ ἐνετειλάμην σοι διδόναι ἀκολουθήσαντί μοι …[…]…[…]…υχεως, ἀλλὰ διέτριψας ἤδη ἐπιδημήσας ἐξ οὗ κατέπλευσα,
ἵνα σὺ λάβῃς τὴν τιμὴν τοῦ οἴνου ἀνὰ
ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς ε κατὰ μέρος. ἔδει γάρ σε ἔκτοτε πεπομφέναι τὴν τιμήν. σὺ δʼ ἔγραψάς μοι ὅτι[…]ν[…] Ἀνδροκλῆς, μετʼ ὀλίγας ἡμέρας φανερῶ σοι τὴν τιμήν.
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ἐπὶ πᾶσι ἔγραψας ὅτι οὐκ ἔδωκέν μοι τὴν τιμὴν
ὁ Εὔτυχος καὶ ἐκεῖνος ὅτι οὐ δίδωμι χωρὶς σοῦ.
ἴσθι οὖν ὅτι παραγράψω σε τὴν τιμὴν τοῦ οἴνου
εἰς δραχμὰς πέντε . καὶ ἐὰν νῦν μὴ λάβωι, ἔγραψα
δὲ καὶ αὐτῶι διαβῆναι εἰς τὴν Ἑπτακωμίαν,
ἕως ἂν περαιωθῇ τὸ πρᾶγμα, ἵνα δοθῇ τὸ
ἀργύριον Ἀπολλωνίῳ τῷ στρατηγῷ τῆς Ἑπτακωμίας καὶ γράψῃ σοι ἐσχηκέναι τὸ ἀργύριον.
ἐπὶ πᾶσι μέντοι γίνωσκε, ὅτι οὕτως ἀναστραφεὶς ἐν πᾶσι τοῖς πρὸς ἐμέ, οὐ μέλλεις
με διαφεύγειν γεωργῶν μου πάντα τὰἐδάφη. νὴ τοὺς θεούς, ᾠόμην ὅτε ἠκολούθουν
τῶι ἡγεμόνι ὅτι ἐν Ἑρμοῦ πόλει εὑρίσκω
τάλαντον εἰς τὸν μ[…]…[…]ον ὑπό σου ἐνηνεγμένον ἐκ λίνων τῶν ἐκμετρηθέντων
ἐν τῶι θησαυρῶι.
ἔρρωσο καὶ[…]…[…]ον ὅτι οὐ
διαφεύγεις με.
ἔρρωσο.
ἔτους ιζ Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου Παῧνι
ιη.
[v]
Διοσκόρωι τῶι φίλωιTranslations (1)
[…] to Dioskoras, his own […], very many greetings.
[…] having understood and […] to pay me now […] having your whole account, of which you also have a copy. So cross over to Heptakomia with him, and also with Eutychos, whom you made master of my property. Humor him, and bring him there with you. And remember that for whatever you wrote you would add the price, you must pay these as you wrote […] the price of the wheat and the lentils […] and the other things […]. For I neither had the plough nor told you to give him anything. And even if I had appointed him, you could not have given to him without me or authority, if you are well disposed to me; nor did I instruct you to give to the one who accompanied me […], but you have already spent time staying in town since I sailed down, so that you might take the price of the wine at 5 silver drachmas each, in part. For you ought to have sent the price since then. But you wrote to me that […] Androkles, 'after a few days I will show you the price.'
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On top of everything you wrote that Eutychos did not give me the price, and he wrote that 'I do not give it without you.' Know then that I will charge you the price of the wine at five drachmas. And if he does not receive it now (I have also written to him to cross over to Heptakomia until the matter is settled), so that the money may be given to Apollonios the strategos of Heptakomia and he may write to you that he has received the money. Above all, however, know that, having behaved this way in all your dealings with me, you are not going to escape me while farming all my lands. By the gods, I thought, when I was accompanying the prefect, that in Hermopolis I would find a talent for the […] brought in by you from the flax measured out in the storehouse.
Farewell, and […] that you do not escape me.
Farewell.
Year 17 of Imperator Caesar the lord, Pauni 18.
[verso]
To Dioskoros his friend.
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Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 19637 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.brem;;53 tier-1
- HGV-Text 19637 tier-1
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