no image
DDbDP-text
Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · papyrus
p.oxy.1.120 IIIOxyrhynchos
Two Letters via HGV-meta
Two letters of Hermeias to his sister and to his son Gounthos. Two letters by Hermeias on one papyrus from Oxyrhynchus, 3rd century AD. In the first he reproaches his sister for not heeding his advice in a time of misfortune and asks her to send Gounthos or Ammonios to stay with him while his affairs are settled; in the second he urges his son Gounthos to come himself if Ammonios does not. machine translation
The same text in other collections
Linked by Trismegistos ID
TM 31346.
Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.
- Two Letters HGV-meta OxyrhynchosIII
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[r]
τῇ ἀδελφῇ Ἑρμείας χαίρειν.
λοιπὸν τί σοι γράψω οὐκ οἶδα, ἀπέκαμον γάρ σοι ἕκαστον λέγων καὶ
οὐκ ἐνακούεις. χρὴ γάρ τινα ὁρῶντα ἑαυτὸν ἐν δυστυχίᾳ καὶ ἂν ἀναχωρεῖν καὶ μὴ ἁπλῶς μάχεσθαι τῷ
δεδογμένῳ. μετρίων γὰρ καὶ δυστυχῶν γένεσιν ἔχοντες οὐδὲ
οὕτω ἑαυτοῖς προσέχομεν. τέως
μὲν οὖν οὐδὲν οὐδέπω πέπρακται,
καὶ ἂν ὡς, εἴπερ μέλει σοι ἀποστεῖλόν
μοί τινα ἢ Γοῦνθον ἢ Ἀμμώνιον
παραμένοντα μοι ἄχρις ἂν γνῶ
πῶς τὰ κατʼ ἐμὲ ἀποτίθεται. μὴ ἆρα
παρέλκομαι ἢ καὶ εἴργομαι ἔστʼ ἂν
ὁ θεὸς ἡμᾶς ἐλεήσῃ; καὶ γὰρ Ἑρμείας
ἐπείγεται ἐλθεῖν πρὸς ὑμᾶς, ἀλλὰ αὐτὸν ἀξιώσας παραμεῖναι οὐκ ἐβουλήθη, λέγων ὅτι ἀναγκαῖόν τι ἔχω
καὶ δεῖ με ἀνελθεῖν, καὶ υἱὸς δὲ Γεννάδιος οὐχ οἷός τέ ἐστιν προσεδρεύειν
κτήσει, μάλιστα ἐπὶ ξένης καὶ
παρὰ τῇ τάξει ὤν. τὰ κατὰ σὲ διοίκησον ὡς πρέπον ἐστίν, μὴ τέλειον ἀνατραπῶμεν. οὐ δέδοκται γὰρ ἡμῖν ἔχειν
τι δυστυχοῦντες. ἔρρωσό μοι διὰ παντὸς
εὖ πράσσουσα.
[v]
Ἑρμείας Γούνθῳ υἱῷ χαίρειν.
εἰ μὴ Ἀμμώνιος πάραυτα
ἔρχεται πρός με, σὺ αὐτὸς
πάντα ὑπερθέμενος
ἧκε ἐκείνου τὸ σὸν ἔργον
ποιοῦντος. ἀλλʼ ὅρα μὴ καταλείψῃς με θλιβόμενον.
καὶ δήλωσόν μοι πῶς ἔσχεν Δίδυμος· μὴ ἆρα αἱ ἡμέραι τὰ πάντα διατελοῦσι;
ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι.Translations (1)
[recto]
Hermeias to his sister, greetings.
For the rest, I do not know what to write to you, for I have grown weary of telling you everything, and you do not listen. For a man who sees himself in misfortune ought at least to give way and not simply fight against what has been decided. For though we are of modest and unfortunate birth, not even so do we pay attention to ourselves. So far, then, nothing has yet been done, and even so, if you care, send me someone, either Gounthos or Ammonios, to stay with me until I know how my affairs are settled. Am I perhaps to be dragged off or even confined until God has mercy on us? For Hermeias too is eager to come to you, but when I asked him to stay he was unwilling, saying, "I have some pressing business and must go up," and my son Gennadios is not able to attend to the property, especially being abroad and with the official staff. Manage your affairs as is fitting, so that we are not completely ruined. For it has not been granted to us to have anything, being unfortunate. Farewell, I pray, and fare well always.
[verso]
Hermeias to Gounthos his son, greetings.
If Ammonios does not come to me at once, put off everything and come yourself, while he does your work. But see that you do not leave me in distress. And let me know how Didymos is; surely the days do not bring everything to an end?
I pray for your health.
Connections
Found at
Oxyrhynchus
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 31346 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;1;120 tier-1
- HGV-Text 31346 tier-1
Similar inscriptions · by content embedding
About this record's data
- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text.
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
- Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.
- Inherited across the Trismegistos spine — a Trismegistos ID names one ancient text, and papyrology splits that text's description across databases: the edition in one, the date and provenance in another, the physical papyrus in a third. Fields tagged via … on this page were read from a sibling record under the same TM number, not asserted by Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text.
- date — from HGV-meta, TM-Text 31346 (see that record)
- find site — from HGV-meta, TM-Text 31346 (see that record)
- find point — from HGV-meta, TM-Text 31346 (see that record)