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Letter of Pausanias Concerning a Recruit via HGV-meta

Letter of Pausanias about the transfer of a young recruit to the ala at Koptos. A private letter from Pausanias to his brother Herakleides in the Oxyrhynchite nome, explaining that he went to Alexandria to get young Pausanias, a recruit, transferred from a legion to the cavalry unit at Koptos. He promises to visit for the Amesysia festival, asks about a mortgage document, and asks for news after hearing of a plague at home. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] Παυσανίας Ἡρακλείδῃ τῶι ἀδελφῶι χαίρειν. οἴομαι τὸν ἀδελφὸν Σαραπάμμωνα μεταδεδωκέναι ὑμῖν διʼ ἣν αἰτίαν κατῆλθον εἰς Ἀλεξάνδρειαν, φθάνω δὲ ὑμῖν πρότερον γεγραφηκὼς περὶ τοῦ μικροῦ Παυσανίου ὡς εἰς λεγιῶνα στρατευσαμένου. ὡς οὖν ἐβουλήθη μηκέτι εἰς λεγιῶναν ἀλλὰ εἰς εἶλαν, μαθὼν ἀναγκαίως ἔσχον πρὸς αὐτὸν καταντῆσαι, καίτοι μὴ βουλόμενος. δεηθεὶς οὖν πολλὰ ὑπὸ τῆς μητρὸς αὐτοῦ καὶ τῆς ἀδελφῆς εἰς Κόπτον αὐτὸν μετενεγκεῖν, κατελθὼν εἰς Ἀλεξάνδρειαν πολλαῖς ἀφορμαῖς ἐχρησάμην ἄχρι οὗ μετενέχθη εἰς τὴν ἐν Κόπτῳ εἶλαν. ἐπιθυμῶν οὖν πρὸς ὑμᾶς τῷ ἀναπλόῳ καταντῆσαι περιεκλείσθημεν ἀπὸ τοῦ δοθέντος τῷ παιδίῳ ὑπὸ τοῦ λαμπροτάτου ἡγεμόνος κομεάτου, καὶ διὰ ταύτην τὴν αἰτίαν οὐκ ἴσχυσα πρὸς ὑμᾶς καταντῆσαι. θεῶν οὖν βουλομένων πρὸς τὴν ἑορτὴν τῶν Ἀμεσυσίων πειράσομαι πρὸς ὑμᾶς γενέσθαι. μελησάτω σοι οὖν, ἄδελφε, περὶ τοῦ γράμματος τῆς ὑποθήκης ὥστε αὐτὸ ἀπαρτισθῆναι καθὼς ἔθος ἐστίν. παρακαλῶ οὖν, ἄδελφε, γράψαι μοι περὶ τῆς ὑμῶν σωτηρίας, ἐπεὶ ἤκουσα ἐν τῇ Ἀντινόου ὅτι παρʼ ὑμῖν λοιμὸς ἐγένετο. μὴ οὖν ἀμελήσῃς, ἵνα καὶ ἐγὼ περὶ ὑμῶν εὐθυμότερον διάξω. [r,ms] ἀσπάζου πολλὰ τὴν κυρίαν μου μητέρα καὶ τὴν ἀδελφήν μου καὶ τὰ ἀβάσκαντα ἡμῶν παιδία. ἀσπάζεται ὑμᾶς Παυσανίας. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι πανοικεί. [v] εἰς Ὀξυρυγχείτην Ἡρακλείδῃ[…]…δ…μν[…] παρὰ Παυσανίου ἀδελφοῦ.

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EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
Pausanias to Herakleides his brother, greeting. I suppose that our brother Sarapammon has told you the reason why I went down to Alexandria, and I have already written to you before about little Pausanias, that he had enlisted in a legion. Well, since he no longer wished to be in a legion but in a cavalry unit (ala), when I learned this I was obliged to go to him, though I did not want to. So, having been earnestly begged by his mother and sister to get him transferred to Koptos, I went down to Alexandria and used many means until he was transferred to the ala at Koptos. Then, though I wanted to come to you on the voyage upstream, we were hemmed in by the leave granted to the boy by the most illustrious prefect, and for this reason I was unable to come to you. So, gods willing, I will try to be with you for the festival of the Amesysia. Take care then, brother, about the document of the mortgage, so that it is completed as is customary. I urge you, brother, to write to me about your health, since I heard in Antinoou that there has been a plague among you. Do not neglect this, so that I too may be more at ease about you. [margin] Greet warmly my lady mother and my sister and our children, whom the evil eye may not touch. Pausanias greets you. I pray for your health with all your household. [verso] To the Oxyrhynchite nome, to Herakleides […] from Pausanias his brother.

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