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p.got.13 IVLykopolis (?)
Lettre à un épistate via APIS-papyrus
Letter from Apollonios to the epistates Herakleios about the arrest of Ktistes. A letter from Apollonios to Herakleios, the epistates (overseer) of a town, probably Lykopolis. Apollonios complains that his brother Heron, sent to arrest the perfume-seller Ktistes, was nearly killed by the townspeople, and asks Herakleios to send Ktistes under public escort after taking sureties from him. machine translation
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TM 32848.
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- Lettre à un épistate APIS-papyrus Lykopolis, Sebennytic nome, ProvinIV A.D.
- Lettre à un épistate HGV-meta Lykopolis (?)IV
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[r]
κυρίῳ μου ἀδελφῷ Ἡρακλείῳ
Ἀπολλώνιος.
ἀκούσας καὶ σὲ ἐν ταῖς αὐταῖς ἀνάγκαις γεγενῆσθαι, οὐχ ἡδέως ἔσχον,
πλὴν ὅσον ἐγχωρεῖ θεοῦ συνεργοῦντος φιλονικήσομεν καὶ αὐτὰ
δανείζεσθαι. ὅσα δὲ πέπονθεν ὁ ἀδελφός μου Ἥρων ἐν τῇ Λύκων γενόμενος, ἵνʼ ἐπιλάβηται Κτίστου τοῦ μυροπώλου, οὐδὲ διηγήσασθαι δύναμαι. καὶ γὰρ ὡς ἐν ἐχθρῶν πόλει οὕτως αὐτῷ πάντες προσηνέχθησαν ὡς καὶ ὀλίγου δεῖν αὐτὸν ἀπόλλυσθαι ὑπὸ τῶν πολιτῶν σου.
ἀλλὰ ὡς σὺ εἶ ὁ ἐπιστάτης αὐτῶν, τὸ παρὸν ὑπερεθέμην, δυνάμενος τὴν παρὰ τῶν μειζόνων ἐκδικίαν αἰτήσασθαι. ἵνα δὲ καὶ
ταῦτα περιαιρεθῇ καὶ τὸ πρόσταγμα πέρας λαβεῖν δύνηται, περὶ πάντός σοι γενέσθω, κύριέ μου ἄδελφε, πανταχόθεν τὸν Κτίστην
τοῦτον ἀποστεῖλαι διὰ δημοσίου, πρότερον ἐγγύας παρασχόντα παρὰ
σοί, ἵνα μὴ πάλιν δυνηθῇ διαφυγεῖν.
ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι, κύριέ μου
ἄδελφε τῷ παντὶ χρόνῳ
ἐρρωμένον …
[v]
κυρίῳ μου ἀδελφῷ Ἡρακλείῳ
Ἀπολλώνιος.Translations (1)
[recto]
To my lord brother Herakleios, Apollonios.
Having heard that you too have fallen into the same straits, I was not pleased; but as far as is possible, with God's help, we shall strive to borrow even these things. As for what my brother Heron suffered when he was in Lykopolis (?) in order to seize Ktistes the perfume-seller, I cannot even describe it. For everyone treated him as if in a city of enemies, so that he was nearly killed by your fellow citizens. But since you are their epistates, I have let the matter rest for the present, although I could have sought redress from the higher authorities. So that these matters may be removed and the order can be carried out, make it your first concern, my lord brother, to send this Ktistes by all means under public escort, after he has first furnished sureties with you, so that he cannot escape again.
I pray for your health, my lord brother, for all time.
… in good health …
[verso]
To my lord brother Herakleios, Apollonios.
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