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p.lond.5.1659 IV
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Letter to a 'father' about rejected garments and a liturgy. Fragmentary end of a private letter, addressed to a 'lord father', about deliveries of cloaks, 52 mantles and tunics, some of which were rejected after being bought by the addressee and a certain Theotimos. The writer complains that the addressee neglected to buy the goods while in Alexandria, mentions a liturgy (compulsory public service), and closes with a farewell. It dates to the 4th century AD. machine translation
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Inscriptions (1)
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Transcription
[… ? lines lost …]
ημε[…]…ι περὶ τούτου καὶ
οὔπω ἔγνωμεν τὴν ἀπόθεσιν ἢ τὴν
ἔκβασιν τοῦ πράγματος. περὶ γὰρ ὅλων τῶν
χλαμύδων καὶ τῶν πεντήκοντα δύο παλλίων
ἠμεριμνήσαμεν ὅτι οἵως ἐγενόμην ἕως
τὸ ὅλον τούτων ὑποδέχθη, καὶ περὶ τῶν στιχαρίων ἀπεβλήθησάν τινα ἐξ αὐτῶν ὧν τὴν συνωνὴν ἐποιήσατε σύ τε καὶ Θεότιμος κατʼ ἐμὴν ἀπουσίαν. ἔστω οὖν τὸ ζήτημα περὶ ἀποβολῆς καὶ οὐχὶ περὶ οὗ οἶδας, ἔγνων δὲ ὡς μὴ
κηδόμενος περὶ ἡμῶν ἐξ ὧν ἠμέλησας τὸν
τοσοῦτον χρόνον ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ μὴ συνωνήσασθαι τὰ εἴδη ἢ ὅτι ἔγνως ὅτι παραδίδωσί με
περὶ τη… τοῦ λειτουργήματος ἀπέλθω ἵνα μὴ μου πάτερ
[…] ἐδήλωσας τὰ περὶ τῆς ὑγίειας τῶν τῆς οἰκίας μου
ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι πολλοῖς χρόνοις, κύριέ μου πάτερTranslations (1)
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[...] about this, and we have not yet learned the outcome or the result of the matter. For about all the cloaks (chlamydes) and the 52 mantles (pallia) we were relieved of worry, because I was (there) until the whole of them was received; and as for the tunics (sticharia), some of them were rejected, those which you and Theotimos purchased in my absence. So let the inquiry be about the rejection and not about what you know. And I realized that you do not care about us, from the fact that you neglected, for so long a time in Alexandria, to purchase the goods, or because you knew that he is handing me over [...] concerning the [...] of the liturgy, I should go away so that not [...] my father [...] you informed me about the health of those of my household.
I pray for your health for many years, my lord father.
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 33190 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.lond;5;1659 tier-1
- HGV-Text 33190 tier-1
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