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p.oxy.16.1841 VIOxyrhynchos

Letter to two Comites via HGV-meta

Letter from Menas to the comites John and Joseph about the grain levy. A sixth-century letter from Menas to two officials with the rank of comes, John and Joseph, at Oxyrhynchus. He urges them to pressure the people of Nikrou to pay their grain levy, since he himself is being pressed for payment. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] † ἵνα μὴ πολλὰ γράψω καὶ ἀπὸ λύπης εὑρεθῶ τῆς ὑμῶν ἀδελφικῆς μεγαλοπρεπείας πάλιν καὶ νῦν παρανακαλῶ ὑμᾶς δυσωπῆσαι τοὺς ἀπὸ Νίκρου δοῦναι τὴν ἐμβολήν. οἶδεν γάρ, καὶ ἂν μὴ γράψω, ὅτι καὶ ἡμεῖς ἀπαιτούμεθα καὶ μάλιστα ἐπὶ τοῦ παρόντος. τὴν οὖν σωτηρίαν αὐτῆς μὴ ἀποτύχω τῆς αἰτήσεως ἵνα καὶ ἐν τούτῳ εὐχαριστήσω ὑμῖν. † [v] † δεσπόταις μου τὰ πάντα μεγαλοπρεπεστάτοις περιβλέπτοις πάσης τιμῆς ἀξίοις γνησίοις φίλοις κυρίοις Ἰωάννῃ καὶ Ἰωσὴφ κόμεσι † Μηνᾶς.

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
† So that I may not write at length and be found [to cause] distress to your brotherly magnificence, again now too I urge you to press the people from Nikrou to pay the embole (grain levy). For your magnificence knows, even if I do not write it, that we too are being pressed for payment, and especially at the present time. By your welfare, then, may I not fail in my request, so that in this too I may thank you. † [verso] † To my masters in all things, most magnificent, illustrious, worthy of all honour, true friends, lords John and Joseph, comites † Menas.

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Found at Oxyrhynchus

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