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Brief des Kallinikos an Elias via HGV-meta
Letter from Kallinikos to Elias about two jars of oil. A private letter from Kallinikos to Elias, whom he addresses as a friend and fellow initiate. He writes a second time about two jars of oil and associated costs, explaining that he is now in need because Leonides is in Babylon, and asks Elias not to abandon him in his distress. machine translation
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Inscriptions (1)
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Transcription
[r]
Καλλίνεικος Ἠλίᾳ πλεῖστα χαίρειν.
πρὸ μὲν πάντων εὔχομαι
σε ὁλοκληρεῖν μετὰ τῶν τέκνων σου. πᾶν ποίησον
μνημόνευε τὴν τῶν
φίλων καὶ συνμυστῶν.
καὶ μὴ ὡς ἀμύητος ἔπεμψά σοι τὴν πρώτην ἐπιστολήν, καὶ νυνὶ ἡ δευτέρα ἐστὶν αὕτη. πᾶν οὖν ποιήσῃς
περὶ τῶν δύο κεραμίων
ἐλαίου· δύο γὰρ ἔπεμψάς
μοι, καὶ τὸν μισθὸν τοῦ
ἐλαιουργοῦ ειπων λαβεν
καὶ τὸ ναῦλον τοῦ κτήνους. λάμβανε λογαρίδιον κε
φιτεια. οἶδας ὅτι πέρυσι
μὴ χριάζων οὐκ εἶπόν σοι,
ἀλλὰ ἐφέτους Λεονίδου
ὄντος ἐν Βαβυλῶνι
καὶ οὕτως χρῄζω. μὴ οὖν
ἀφήσῃς με ἐν ταύτῃ θλίψει·
καὶ γὰρ αἱ φιλίαι τοιαῦται
φαίνονται.
[v]
δὸς Ἠλιᾶτι παρὰ Καλλινείκου.Translations (1)
Kallinikos to Elias, very many greetings.
Before all else I pray that you are in good health together with your children. Do everything (?) to remember the [request?] of your friends and fellow initiates. And not as an uninitiated person did I send you the first letter, and now this is the second. So do everything about the two jars of oil; for you sent me two, and (I paid?) the wage of the oil-presser, saying (he should?) take it, and the hire of the pack animal. Take a small account (?) ... You know that last year, not being in need, I did not tell you, but this year, Leonides being in Babylon, I am therefore in need. So do not leave me in this distress; for that is how friendships show themselves.
[verso]
Deliver to Elias from Kallinikos.
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 33549 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.muench;3.1;127 tier-1
- HGV-Text 33549 tier-1
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