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Report on the amir's requisition of horses and donkeys. A Greek letter or report to a superior addressed as 'your fatherly lordship', saying that the 'amir' (an Arab official) had sent a groom with orders to collect three horses and two donkeys from the hamlet of the writer's brother Germanos alias Theon. The writer says he cannot disobey and asks the addressee to stay nearby two more days. machine translation
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† ἀναφέρω τῇ ὑμετέρᾳ πατρικῇ δεσποτείᾳ
ὅτι ἀποψὲ ἔγραψέν μοι ὁ εὐκλεέστατος
ἀμίρας διὰ τοῦ ἱπποκόμου Ἰβιῶνος Πανεκτυρέως
ἵνα πέμψω εἰς τὸ ἐποίκιον τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ
μου τοῦ κυρίου Γερμανοῦ τοῦ καὶ λεγομένου Θέωνος
καὶ λαβεῖν ἐκεῖ τρία ἱππάρια καὶ δύο
γαιδάρια καὶ ἐπιδοῦναι τῷ ἱπποκόμῳ
καὶ οἴδατε ὅτι οὐ δύνομαι παρακοῦσαι
καὶ πρὸς τῷ τὸν δεσπότην μου[…]
σημάνω παρακαλῶ δὲ ὑμᾶς ὅπως
γένηται ἵνα μείνητε ἐγγὺς ἡμῶν
ἄλλας δύο ἡμέρας οὐ βλάπτετε […]
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