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p.oxy.14.1669 IIIOxyrhynchos

Letter of Horion to Serenus via HGV-meta

Letter from Horion to Serenus about contractors, grain purchase and rent accounts. A private business letter from Horion to Serenus, probably his agent, rebuking him for not sending contractors or reporting news, and instructing him to check on the compulsory grain purchase, obtain an account from the sitologos Ptolemaios, and come to settle the rent accounts. It was written at Oxyrhynchus in the 3rd century AD. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

Ὡρείων Σερήνῳ χαίρειν. τοὺς ἐκδοχεῖς οὐκ ἔπεμψας ὡς ἐνετειλάμην σοι, ἀλλʼ οὐδὲ ἔγραψας εἰ ἀπετάξαντο, ἵνʼ οὕτως ἀρτίσωμαι, οὐδὲ εἰ ἦλθεν Διογᾶς ὁ ἐρεοπώλης, ἵνα καὶ αὐτοῦ τὴν βουλὴν γνῶμεν. ἐνετειλάμην σοι ἐξετάσαι περὶ τοῦ συναγοραστικοῦ εἰ πληροῦται, καὶ συμβαλεῖν Πτολεμαίῳ τῷ σιτολόγῳ καὶ τὸν λόγον πέμψαι αὐτοῦ λαβόντα σε παρὰ Ἀπολλωνίου καὶ Ἡρᾶτος, ἵνα μὴ ἐνοχλῆται ἡμῶν ἡ οἰκία. ὥστε καὶ ἐὰν νῦν ταῦτα ποίησον, καὶ σκύληθι καὶ αὐτὸς ἐνθάδε, ἵνα τοὺς λόγους τῶν φόρων συναιρώμεθα. εἰ οἱ ἐπισκέπται ἤλθον, δήλωσον Νικηφόρῳ, ἵνα[…]…[…] […]νεθ[…] [… ? lines lost …]

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
Horion to Serenus, greetings. You did not send the contractors as I instructed you, nor did you even write whether they had taken their leave (?), so that I might make arrangements accordingly, nor whether Diogas the wool-seller came, so that we might learn his intention too. I instructed you to inquire about the compulsory purchase of grain, whether it is being completed, and to meet Ptolemaios the sitologos and send his account, after receiving it from Apollonios and Heras, so that our household may not be troubled. So even now do these things, and take the trouble to come here yourself, so that we may settle the accounts of the rents. If the inspectors have come, inform Nikephoros, so that […] […] […]

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Found at Oxyrhynchus

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