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p.oxy.12.1588 Ende IIIOxyrhynchites
Letter of Dorotheus via HGV-meta
Letter from Dorotheos to Aphynchis about an unpaid debt. A private letter from Dorotheos to Aphynchis, whom he addresses as father, warning that their friendship is at risk of turning into enmity. Creditors who lent money to Aphynchis through Dorotheos are now pressing him, accompanied by a soldier of the epistrategos, and he sees no option but to borrow to cover the outstanding talent. It dates to the late 3rd century AD, from the Oxyrhynchite nome. machine translation
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- Letter of Dorotheus HGV-meta OxyrhynchitesEnde III
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Transcription
Δωρόθεος Ἀφυγχίῳ
τῷ πατρὶ χαίρειν.
ἡ φιλικὴ σχέσις πρὸς σὲ καὶ τὸν υἱόν
σου ἐλπίζει μεγάλην ἔχθραν γενέσθαι. ἕως γὰρ καὶ ἐγὼ οὐκ ἠνωχλούμην ὑφʼ ὧν εἴληφας διʼ ἐμοῦ τὰ ἀργύρια,
περὶ ὧν πολλάκις σοι ἀπαντήσας
ὡμίλησα, ἠ…πόμην σου · νῦν δὲ
ὀχληθεὶς ὑπʼ αὐτῶν μετὰ καὶ στρατιώτου τοῦ ἐπιστρατηγοῦ οὐκ ἐξευρίσκω
τι ἄλλο ποιεῖν περὶ τοῦ λοιποῦ, λέγω ταλάντου ἑνός, τάλαντον α, ἢ δανείσασθαι
…[…]…η…[…]οντος τότε μηδὲ στατῆρα
[…]σμου ἐπὶ τοῦτο ἥκειν
[…]ι…δευς χάρις αὐτῷ
[…]νον
[… ? lines lost …]Translations (1)
Dorotheos to Aphynchis his father, greetings.
The friendly relationship with you and your son is likely (?) to turn into great enmity. For as long as I was not being troubled by those from whom you received the money through me, about which I often spoke with you when I met you, I […] you; but now, being troubled by them, together with a soldier of the epistrategos, I can find nothing else to do about the remainder, I mean one talent, 1 talent, except to borrow […] then not even a stater […] to come to this […] thanks to him […]
[…]
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- TM-Text 31770 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;12;1588 tier-1
- HGV-Text 31770 tier-1
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