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p.oxy.14.1674 IIIOxyrhynchos
Letter of Theon to his son Apollonios via HGV-meta
Letter from Theon to his son Apollonios with farm instructions. A private letter from Theon to his son Apollonios, sending eggs and vegetables and giving farm instructions: cutting and burning a thorn tree, levelling earthworks, preparing bricks for a wall, and paying wheat to river-workers. Written at Oxyrhynchus in the 3rd century AD. machine translation
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- Letter of Theon to his son Apollonios HGV-meta OxyrhynchosIII
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· Greek
Transcription
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Θέων Ἀπολλωνίῳ υἱῷ χαίρειν.
ἐπειδὴ οὐχ εὗρον κρέας σοι πέμψαι, ἔπεμψα
ᾠὰ κ καὶ λάχανα. ποίησον τὴν ἄκανθαν καταβληθῆναι καὶ τὴν ὕλην αὐτῆς βάλε εἰς τὸν
τρύπανον. ἀλλὰ σὺ κατάβαλε καὶ καῦσον τὴν ῥίζαν αὐτῆς, καὶ ἐὰν συντελεσθῇ τὸ ἔργον μέχρι
τοῦ χώματος, καταβληθήτω ἡ κ…νις καὶ ἰσωθήτω τὸ πὰν τοῦ κεχωσμένου. καὶ θὲς τὴν ὀπτὴν
πλίνθον παρὰ τὴν πλάτην, καὶ ἔρχεται ὁ οἰκοδόμος καὶ οἰκοδομεῖ τὴν νοτινὴν πλάτην. καὶ
εἶπον τῷ φροντιστῇ Ἀπολλωνίου περὶ τῆς μηχανῆς ἣν ἔλεγέν μοι ὅτι ἐὰν γένωμαι ἐκεῖ
[…]τοῖς τέκτοσι καὶ …
[…]τέτωσαν οἱ ποταμῖται[…]ν παύσηται καὶ μὴ
[…]…α χωρίον
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ποίησον ἀπὸ τῆς ἁλωνείας γενέσθαι τοῖς ποταμίταις
ἐκ Στρατονίκου εἰς Μοῦχιν ἀρτάβας η 𐅵 σίτου …[…]
[…]δω γενοῦ μετʼ αὐτοῦ ἐκεῖ[…]Translations (1)
Theon to Apollonios his son, greetings.
Since I did not find meat to send you, I have sent 20 eggs and vegetables. Have the acacia (?) tree cut down and throw its wood into the borer (?). But you, cut it down and burn its root, and if the work is finished as far as the embankment, let the […] be thrown down and let the whole of the filled-in area be levelled. And put the baked brick by the wall, and the builder is coming and will build the southern wall. [And] I spoke to the steward of Apollonios about the machine, about which he told me that if I am there […] to the carpenters and […] let the river-workers […] stop and not […] plot of land
[…]
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Have given from the threshing-floor to the river-workers from Stratonikos to Mouchis 8 1/2 artabas of wheat […] be there with him […]
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Oxyrhynchus
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 31783 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;14;1674 tier-1
- HGV-Text 31783 tier-1
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