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Letter from Sansnos to Aphrodisios via HGV-meta
Letter from Sansnos to Aphrodisios about food for the children and livestock. A Christian letter of the 4th century AD from Sansnos to Aphrodisios, complaining that Aphrodisios promised but failed to send food to the children, and reporting on dealings with shepherds over sheep and goats. It ends with greetings to Haraklys and his family. machine translation
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Transcription
τῷ ἀγαπητῷ ἀδελφῷ Ἀφροδισίῳ
Σανσνῶς ἐν Κυρίῳ χαίρειν.
καθὼς ἐξῆλθες ἀφʼ ἡμῶν πρὸς
τὰ παιδία χωρὶς τροφῆς καὶ σύ,
Ἀφροδίσιε, ὅτι πέμψομεν αὐτοῖς
τροφήν, οὐδὲν ἔπεμψας αὐτοῖς.
καὶ σύ, Ἀφροδίσιε, ὡμολόγησας
ὅτι ὑπάγωμεν διτομει τὰ πρόβατα
καὶ τὰ αἰγίδια. νῦν οὖν οὐδὲν ἔπεμψας τοῖς παιδίοις. καὶ πάλιν ἔγραψα
ἅπαξ ἔπεμψα πρὸς σέ.
ἐζήτησα παρὰ τῶν ποιμένων
περὶ τῶν κτηνῶν, καὶ εἶπαν
οἱ ποιμένες ὡμολόγησαν
ὅτι οἱ ἔχοντες τὰ πρόβατα
καὶ τὰ θρέμματα αὐτοὶ πληρῶσιν.
καὶ ἐζήτησα παρὰ Σανσνῶτος
ποιμένος ὅτι πῶς ποιοῦμεν
περὶ τῶν θρεμμάτων, καὶ εἶπε
Σανσνῶς ὅτι ἐλοιπάσθη πρόβατα
καὶ αἰγίδια, καὶ ἔδωκα αὐτοῖς
εἴκοσι θαρις. οὐδὲν ποιοῦμεν.
περὶ τῶν ἰδίων πέμψον μοι καὶ
μάθω. καὶ ἀσπάζομεν Ἁρακλῦς
καὶ τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς καὶ τὰ τέκνα
Ἁρακλῦς
ἐρρῶσθαί σε
εὔχομαι
πολλοῖς χρόνοις.Translations (1)
To my beloved brother Aphrodisios, Sansnos, greetings in the Lord.
When you went away from us to the children without food, you too, Aphrodisios, (said) that we would send them food, (yet) you sent them nothing. And you, Aphrodisios, agreed that we should take away (?) the sheep and the young goats in two parts (?). Now then you have sent nothing to the children. And again I wrote; once I sent to you. I inquired of the shepherds about the animals, and the shepherds said, they agreed, that those who have the sheep and the livestock should themselves pay in full. And I asked Sansnos the shepherd how we should act concerning the livestock, and Sansnos said that sheep and young goats were lost (?), and I gave them twenty thari (?). We are doing nothing. Send to me about your own affairs so that I may know. And we greet Haraklys and the brothers and the children of Haraklys.
I pray for your health for many years.
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 32411 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.nag.hamm;;69 tier-1
- HGV-Text 32411 tier-1
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