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p.oxy.16.1840 VIOxyrhynchos

Letter concerning Collection of Dues via HGV-meta

Letter ordering collection of dues by estate managers. A sixth-century letter from Oxyrhynchus in which the sender urges the recipient to come immediately with items discussed in person and to send the estate managers (pronoetai) out to collect dues in gold solidi, threatening them if they are not diligent. He also asks for part of a basket, cheeses and brown wool. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] παρὰ † θελήσῃ σοῦ ἡ τιμιότης πάραυτα ἐλθεῖν ἐνταῦθα φέρων μοι πάντα ὅσα κατὰ πρόσωπον εἶπόν σοι, χρεία γάρ ἐστι κατὰ τὸ ἀναγκαῖον, τοὺς δὲ προνοητὰς πέμψον εἰς ἀγρὸν εἰς ἀπαίτησιν, παραγγέλλων αὐτοῖς εὐτρεπίσαι μοι πολλὰ ὁλοκόττινα. ζῇ γὰρ ὁ κύριος, ἐὰν μὴ εὕρω ὅτι σπουδὴν πολλὴν ἐποίησαν εἰς τὴν ἀπαίτησιν, διαστρέφω αὐτοὺς πάνυ. τὰ οὖν εὐτρεπισθέντα πάντα φέρε μοι ἃ εἶπόν σοι κατὰ πρόσωπον. † φέρε δὲ ἡμῖν καὶ τὸ μέρος τοῦ λίκνου, δοὺς καὶ πάντα τὰ τυρία ἃ φέρων δοῦναί μοι μετὰ καὶ τῆς ἐρέας τῆς καρυίνης. † [v] ἐπίδος … [… 7 lines lost …] [… 5 lines lost …]

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] From […] † Let your honour be pleased to come here at once, bringing me everything that I told you face to face, for there is pressing need. Send the pronoetai to the countryside for the collection, instructing them to have many solidi ready for me. For as the Lord lives, if I do not find that they have shown great zeal in the collection, I will thoroughly ruin them. So bring me all that has been made ready, the things I told you face to face. † Bring us also the part of the winnowing basket (?), handing over also all the cheeses which you were to bring and give me, together with the nut-brown wool. † [verso] Deliver to […] […]

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Found at Oxyrhynchus

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