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Aurelios Zoïlos an Diogenes via HGV-meta

Angry letter from Aurelius Zoilos to his brother Diogenes. An angry private letter from Aurelius Zoilos to his brother Diogenes, protesting against reproaches and threats of beating, recalling his own years of service to the family and Diogenes' running off to the Kynopolite nome, and complaining that Diogenes planned to throw him out if their mother died. It is dated Year 5, Choiak 3, probably 30 November 247. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] Αὐρήλιος Ζωΐλος Διογένει. ἐδεξάμην σου τὰ γράμματα τῇ β καὶ εὗρον αὐτὰ […]…ια[…]…θων… τὴν μωρίαν. ἐγὼ μὲν ὑπηρετῶν ἐπιονειδίζομαι· οὔκ εἰμι ἀπονενοημένος καὶ οὔκ εἰμι ἀναίσχυντος καὶ οὔκ εἰμι μῦς. σὺ φιλοπόνει τὰ γράμματά μου· μάθε οὖν ὅτι ἐγὼ πεποίηκά μου τὰ ἔτη ιδ, τὸ δὲ λοιπὸν ὑπηρετῶν τοὺς γονέας σου, καὶ οὐκ ἦν ἀναίσχυντος καὶ οὐχ ὅμοιός σου ἐγενόμην οὐδὲ τῇ ἀδελφῇ μου. οὐκ ἔδει σε ταῦτα πράττειν καὶ ἀπελθεῖν ἐτῶν ιβ καὶ ἀπιχάζειν εἰς Κυνοπολίτην. ἐὰν δὲ πάντα ποιήσῃς, οὐ δύνασαί με δεῖραι. ὅτε γὰρ μικρὸς ἤμην, ἐγὼ πάλιν ἔδερόν σε· ἄρτι λοιπόν, ὅτε νεανίσκος ἐγενάμην, μέλλεις με δεῖραι. ἐγενάμην σου λοιπὸν ἀνεχόμενος, οὐ μέλλω σε λοιπὸν ἀνέχεσθαι. μαρτυρήσω δὲ καὶ τῇ ἀδελφῇ μου Θαήσιδι, ἐὰν παραγένηται πρὸς ἐμὲ σὺν θεοῖς. ἔτους ε Χοίακ γ. ἐδόκουν γὰρ ὅτι μέλλεις με φιλοστοργεῖν· ὅτʼ ἐκεκινδυνεύκει ἡ μήτηρ μου, εὗρον ὅτι, ἐὰν γένηται αὐτὴ μετὰ ἑκατὸν ἔτη, ἔμελλές με α…θως ἐκβαλεῖν πρὸς τῇ θύρᾳ [v] τῷ ἀδελφῷ Διογένει ἀπὸ Αὐρηλίου Ζωΐλου

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[recto] [Aurelius Zoilos] to Diogenes. [I received yo]ur letter on the 2nd and found it [...] the foolishness. I, while serving, am reproached: I am not out of my mind, and I am not shameless, and I am not a mouse. Take pains over my letter; learn then that I have spent my 14 years, and for the rest serving your parents, and I was not shameless, and I did not become like you, nor like my sister. You ought not to have done these things and gone off at 12 years old and run away (?) to the Kynopolite nome. Even if you do everything, you cannot beat me. For when I was little, I in turn used to beat you; now at last, when I have become a young man, you intend to beat me. I have put up with you until now; I will not put up with you any longer. I will also bear witness to my sister Thaesis, if she comes to me, with the gods' help. Year 5, Choiak 3. For I thought that you would show me affection; when my mother was in danger, I found that, if she should pass away (after a hundred years), you were going to throw me [...] out at the door. [verso] To his brother Diogenes from Aurelius Zoilos

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