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p.mich.8.480 frühes IIAlexandria (?)

Private Letter via APIS-papyrus

Letter from Terentianus to his father Tiberianus about registering cheirographs. A private letter from Claudius Terentianus to his father Claudius Tiberianus, written probably at Alexandria in the early 2nd century AD. He reports his dealings with a certain Aemilius over handwritten contracts (cheirographs) that could not be registered without the archidikastes, an extra payment of 32 drachmas, and a memorandum submitted to that official. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

Κλαύδιος Τερεντιανὸς Κλαυδίωι Τιβεριανῷ τῷ πατρὶ πλεῖστα χαίρειν. πρὸ μὲν πάντων εὔχομαί σε ὑγιαίνειν, ὑγιαίνω δὲ καὶ αὐτός. τὸ προσκύνημά σου ποιοῦμαι καθʼ ἑκάστην ἡμέραν παρὰ τοῖς ἐνθάδε θεοῖς. γινώσκειν σε θέλω, κύριέ μου πατήρ, ὅτι ἕως σήμερον ἀφʼ ἧς ἐξῆλθες ἀπʼ ἐμοῦ παρεδρεύω παρὰ Αἰμίλιον αἰτῶν λόγον περὶ ἐκείνων καὶ ἐνήνοχέν μοι ἀντιλογίαν λέγων ὅτι τὰ χειρόγραφα ἐκείνου τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἀνόμοιά ἐστιν καὶ οὐ δύναται καταχωρισθῆναι χωρὶς τοῦ ἀρχιδικαστοῦ[…]…[…]…[…]…πον ἦν γεγραμμένα. ἔδωκα οὖν αὐτῷ […]…[…]ελεστ[…]θη αὐτὰ ἄλλας δραχμὰς τριάκοντα δύο […]λέγοντι ὅτι ἐάν μου καταγνῶς ἢ σὺ ἢ ὁ πατήρ σου […] προσαπόλαβε παρʼ ἐμοῦ ὃ δέδωκάς μοι. ἐγὼ γὰρ ἄλλο ἔδωκα[…]…[…]μασί μου ὑπόμνημα τῷ ἀρχιδικαστῇ διʼ οὗ ἔδωκε[…]… ὑπόμνημα. ἐλπίζω οὖν ταχὺ ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ ἀπολαβεῖν αὐτὰ τετελειωμένα καὶ διαπέμψαι […]…ανα…[…]ανω…[…]…με κατηξίωσας [… ? lines lost …]

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EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
Claudius Terentianus to Claudius Tiberianus his father, very many greetings. Before all else I pray that you are in good health; I am well myself. I make obeisance for you every day before the gods here. I want you to know, my lord father, that from the day you left me until today I have been waiting in attendance on Aemilius, asking for an account concerning those matters, and he has brought me an objection, saying that the handwritten documents of that man are inconsistent and cannot be registered without the archidikastes […] had been written. So I gave him […] them another 32 drachmas […] saying to him that 'if either you or your father condemns me […] get back from me in addition what you have given me.' For I gave [another (?)] […] my […] memorandum to the archidikastes, through which he gave […] memorandum. So I hope soon to receive them back from him completed and to send them on […] you thought me worthy […] […]

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