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p.fay.112 21. Mai 99Euhemeria (Arsinoites, Ägypten)

Letter from Gemellus to Epagathus via HGV-meta

Letter from Gemellus to Epagathos on olive groves and harvest. A letter from the landowner Lucius Bellenus Gemellus to his estate manager Epagathos, ordering him to speed up digging and hoeing in the olive groves, scolding him for leaving a field at Apias half harvested, and telling him to delay threshing. It was written on 21 May AD 99 in the Arsinoite nome. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

Λούκιος Βελλῆνος Γέμελλος Ἐπαγαθῶι τῶι ἰδίωι χαίρειν. εὖ ποιήσεις διῶξαι τοὺς σκαφήτρους τῶν ἐλαιώνων καὶ τοὺς ὑποσχεισμοὺς καὶ διβολήτους τῶν ἐλαιώνων, καὶ τὰ ἀναπαύματα ὑπόσχεισον καὶ διβόλησον, ἐπιτείνας τὸν ζευγηλάτην ἵνα ἑκάστης ἡμέρας τὸ ἔργον ἀποδοῖ, καὶ μὴ τοῖς κει[…]ασι ἀριθμὸν ταυρικῶν κόλλα. τὸν ὄγμον τῆς Ἀπιάδος ἕως σήμερον οὐ ἐθέρισας ἀλλʼ ἠμέληκας αὐτοῦ καὶ μέχρι τούτου τὸ ἥμισυ αὐτοῦ ἐθέρισας, ἐπέχον τῷ δακτυλιστῇ Ζωίλωι καὶ ἵνα αὐτὸν μὴ δυσωπήσῃς· ἀθέριστον ἕως σήμερον ἀφεῖκας· διὸ μέμφομαί σε μεγάλως. ἐπίγνωθι εἰ ἐσκάφη ὁ τῆς Διονυσιάδος ἐλαιών· εἰ μὴ δίωξον αὐτοῦ τὸν σκάφητρον ἐν δυσὶ ἡμέραις. συμφέρει γὰρ εν…ικκον αὐτὸν σκαφῆναι. μὴ σπουδασέτωσαν ἀλωᾶν ταλομμινα καὶ τὴν Σένθεως ἕως γράψω. τὰς ἅλως οὐ πάσας θλάσον ἐπὶ τοῦ παρόντος. μὴ οὖν ἄλλως ποιήσῃς. ἔρρωσο. ἀσπάζου Ἥρωνα καὶ Ὀρσενοῦφιν καὶ τοὺς ἐν οἴκῳ πάντας. ἔτους β Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Νερούα Τραιανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ, Παχὸν κϛ.

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EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
Lucius Bellenus Gemellus to his own Epagathos, greeting. Please hurry on the diggers of the olive groves and the ditching (?) and double-hoeing of the olive groves, and ditch and double-hoe the fallow plots, pressing the ox-driver so that he completes the work each day, and do not attach a number of oxen to those [...]. The swath of Apias you have not harvested to this day but have neglected it, and up to now you have harvested only half of it, holding back for the measurer Zoilos so that you would not put him out; you have left it unharvested to this day. For this I blame you greatly. Find out whether the olive grove of Dionysias has been dug; if not, hurry on its digging within two days. For it is advantageous [...] that it be dug. Let them not hurry to thresh [...] and the land of Sentheus until I write. Do not thresh all the threshing floors for the present. So do not do otherwise. Farewell. Greet Heron and Orsenouphis and all those in the house. Year 2 of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus, Pachon 26.

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