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p.mert.3.115 frühes IV
Private Letter via HGV-meta
Letter from a father to his son with reproaches and advice. Fragmentary private letter from a father to his son, complaining that he has received no letter for a long time, rebuking the son for impious conduct toward his father, warning him against malicious people spreading rumours, and asking him to care for the father's people staying with him. It closes with a Latin farewell and dates to the early 4th century AD. machine translation
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Linked by Trismegistos ID
TM 33524.
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- chla.46.1363 DDbDP-text frühes IV
- Private Letter HGV-meta unbekanntfrühes IV
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[r]
[… ? lines lost …]
[…]…αι[…]
[…]ἐν τοσούτῳ χρόνῳ
γράμματα οὐκ ἐδεξάμην[…]ὥστε ἐν ἀγωνίᾳ
γενέσθαι μὴ ἁρπαγῇς
[…]…μ ων
[…]…ν με ἀληθῶς
[…] ἀντὶ υἱοῦ ἀλλὰ
οὐ καλῶς τὰ περὶ πατρὸς
ἐποίησας οὐκ εὐσεβὲς
πρᾶγμα ποιῶν· ἀλλʼ οὐδε
[…]…ν ὀφείλεις δοῦναι
κακοῖς ἀνθρώποις τοῖς βουλομένοις περὶ σοῦ ματαίαν φήμην ἐξάγειν
οὐδὲ πιστεύειν σε ἁπλῶς
[…]… διαλέγεσθαι. ἔχεις
γὰρ οὐκ ἀγαθοὺς συμπολίτας τοὺς οὐκ ἀγαθὸν περὶ σοῦ ἐπιχειρήσαντας. ἀξιῶ οὖν, υἱέ,
τοὺς ἐμοὺς μένοντας
παρὰ σοὶ ὡς σοὺς ἀγαπήσῃς καὶ ἐκ τὴν ἐπιστήμην φυλάξῃς ἣν
[…]ντ…τε ἔσχηκά τε αυ
[…]… ἐπιτάξῃς.
οπτο τε
fili bene
valere.
[v]
…Translations (1)
[recto]
[...]
[...] in so long a time I have not received [a letter] [...] so that I am in anguish [lest] you be carried off(?) [...]
[...] me truly [...] in place of a son, but you have [not] done well in the matter of your father, doing an impious thing. But neither [...] ought you to give [...] to wicked people who wish to spread idle rumour about you, nor to trust you simply [...] to converse. For you have no good fellow-citizens in those who have attempted no good concerning you. I ask you therefore, son, to love my people who stay with you as your own, and to guard the knowledge which [...] and I have had [...] you command.
(Latin) I wish(?) that you, son, fare well.
[verso]
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Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 33524 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.mert;3;115 tier-1
- HGV-Text 33524 tier-1
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