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p.oxy.16.1844 VI - VIIOxyrhynchos

Letter from Victor to George via HGV-meta

Letter from Victor to George asking for the escort Theodoros. A short business letter from Victor, a deputy of a great landowning household, to George, its administrator, urgently asking him to send or bring the escort Theodoros within two days because a money-changer needs him to travel to Alexandria. It was written at Oxyrhynchus in the 6th or 7th century AD. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] † εὐθέως καὶ κατʼ αὐτὴν τὴν ὥραν Θεόδωρον τὸν παραπομπὸν πέμψῃ μοι ἐνταῦθα ἡ σὴ γνησία λαμπρότης, ἐπειδὴ αὐτὸν ἀναβλέπει ὁ περίβλεπτος ἀργυροπράτης κατελθεῖν ἐπὶ Ἀλεξάνδρειαν. ἀλλὰ πάντως ἐνέγκῃ αὐτὸν μεθʼ ἑαυτῆς καὶ καταλάβῃ συντόμως διὰ τῆς μεταύριον. οὐδὲ γὰρ πλέον δύνομαι κρατῆσαι ἀργυροπράτην ὡς οἶδεν Κύριος, ὀχλοῦντά με. πάντως οὖν καταλάβῃ μεταύριον μετὰ τοῦ αὐτοῦ παραπομποῦ. † [v] † δεσπότῃ τὰ πάντα λαμπροτάτῳ τιμῆς ἀξίῳ γνησίῳ ἀδελφῷ Γεωργίῳ διοικητῇ † Βίκτωρ σὺν θεῷ ἀντιγεοῦχος. †

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] † Immediately and at this very hour let your true Excellency send me here Theodoros the escort, since the most admirable money-changer is looking to him to go down to Alexandria. But by all means bring him with you and arrive quickly by the day after tomorrow. For I can no longer hold back the money-changer, as the Lord knows, since he is pestering me. So by all means arrive the day after tomorrow with the same escort. † [verso] † To my master in all things, most illustrious, worthy of honour, true brother George, administrator, † Victor, with God, deputy landowner (antigeouchos). †

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Found at Oxyrhynchus

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