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p.oxy.14.1680 spätes III - frühes IVOxyrhynchos

Letter to Apollo from his Son via HGV-meta

Letter from a son to his father Apollo warning of the steward Herakleios. A fragmentary private letter from a son to his father Apollo, praying for his safe return and expressing worry over his absence. He warns that Herakleios, the current steward, is looking for his father and may have a claim against him, and mentions delivering 2 artabas of wheat to Gaeis. Written at Oxyrhynchus in the late 3rd or early 4th century AD. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] [… ? lines lost …] […]… …[…]γλυκύτατε πάτερ, καὶ εὔχομαι τῷ θεῷ ὁλοκληρεῖν σε καὶ εὐοδοῦσθαι καὶ ὑγιαίνοντά σε ἀπολαβεῖν ἐν τοῖς ἰδίοις. καὶ γὰρ πρὸ τούτου σοι ἐδήλωσα λυπούμενος ἐπὶ τῇ ἐν ἡμῖν σου ἀπουσίᾳ, μήπως ὃ μὴ εἴη σοι γένοιτο καὶ μὴ εὕρωμέν σου τὸ σῶμα. καὶ πρότερον πολλάκις σοι δηλόω βουλόμενος βλέπων εἰς τὸ ἀσύστατον σήμερον ἠθέλησα ἐνχαράξαι σοι. καὶ νῦν γὰρ ἀκούω ὅτι σφόδρα Ἡράκλειος ὁ νῦν ἐπίτροπος ζητεῖ σε, καὶ ὑπονοοῦμαι ὅτι πάντως πάλιν τί ποτε ἔχει πρὸς σέ. εἴ τί ποτε αὐτῷ χρεωστεῖς, καὶ τοῦτό γε βούλομαί σε γνῶναι ὅτι ἐκόμισα πρὸς Γάειν σίτου ἀρτάβας δύο καὶ [… ? lines lost …] [v] τῷ κυρίῳ καὶ ἀγαπητῷ πατρὶ Ἀπόλλωνι […]

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] [...] [...] dearest father, and I pray to God that you are in full health and prospering and that I may receive you back in good health in your own home. For before this too I informed you, being grieved at your absence from among us, lest what I pray may not happen should befall you and we should not find your body. And [formerly] I often inform you, wishing [...]; seeing the unsettled state (of things) today I wanted to write to you. For now too I hear that Herakleios, the present steward (epitropos), is eagerly seeking you, and I suspect that he certainly has something against you again. [If] you owe him anything, [... and] this too I want you to know, that I brought to Gaeis 2 artabas of wheat and [...] [...] [verso] [To my lord] and beloved father Apollo [...]

Connections

Found at Oxyrhynchus

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