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p.oxy.16.1854 VI - VIIOxyrhynchos

Letter from Victor to George via HGV-meta

Letter from Victor to George about a stable-man and detained estate officials. A letter from Victor, an illustris and deputy estate-holder (antigeouchos), to George, an estate manager, concerning a stable-man and a horse, the release of several estate officials including Serenos, and a request that a clerk be sent to settle accounts with Agrippas. It dates from the 6th or 7th century AD and comes from Oxyrhynchus. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] † τὸν σταβλίτην παραδέδωκα τοῖς ἀνασκάφοις νεωτέροις ἵνα τὸν ἵππον ὃν ἔλαβαν δώσωσιν αὐτῷ καὶ ἐπανέλθῃ[…]μη ἐνέγκας αὐτό, καὶ νομίζω ὅτι τὸ μυστάριν ἤδη ἐσκότωσεν καὶ ἐκείνους. καταξιώσῃ οὖν πάντως πρὸ τοῦ τὰ ὕδατα κατακρατήσωσιν τὴν γῆν πέμψαι μοι αὐτόν, ἐπεί, ζῇ κύριος, ἐὰν συμβῇ αὐτῷ τί ποτε, παρέχεις τὴν τιμὴν αὐτοῦ. ἀπόλυσον δὲ πάντως Σερῆνον τὸν χαρτουλάριον καὶ τὸν ῥιπάριον καὶ τὸν μειζότερον, οὐδὲ γὰρ θέλω σε τοιοῦτό τί ποτε διαπράξασθαι. ἐδυνόμην γὰρ καὶ ἐγὼ τοὺς ἐρχομένους ἀπὸ τῆς Κυνῶν εἰς Ὀξυρύγχων ποιῆσαι μηδὲ φανῆναι καὶ ὅμως οὐδὲν τοιοῦτο ἐποίησα. πέμψον δὲ ἐνταῦθα ἕνα τῶν χαρτουλαρίων ὀφείλοντα ποιῆσαι λογάριν πρὸς Ἀγρίππαν τὸν περίβλεπτον, ἵνα μάθωμεν τί χρεωστούμεθα παρʼ αὐτοῦ, ἐπειδὴ εἰς τὸ πρᾶγμα καθήμεθα. πάντως οὖν διὰ τῆς σήμερον πέμψον αὐτόν. † [v] δεσπότῃ τὰ πάντα λαμπροτάτῳ καὶ πάσης τιμῆς ἀξίῳ γνησίῳ ἀδελφῷ Γεωργίῳ διοικητῇ † Βίκτωρ ἰλλούστριος σὺν θεῷ ἀντιγεοῦχος. †

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] † I have handed over the stable-man to the young diggers so that they may give him the horse which they took, and he may return […] bringing it, and I think that the little rascal (?) has already beaten (?) them too. Please then, by all means, before the waters overwhelm the land, send him to me, since, as the Lord lives, if anything whatever happens to him, you will pay his price. And by all means release Serenos the chartularius and the riparius and the meizoteros, for I do not want you to do any such thing. For I too could have made those coming from Kynopolis to Oxyrhynchus not even appear, and yet I did nothing of the kind. Send here one of the chartularii who is obliged to make up an account with Agrippas the most admired, so that we may learn what is owed to us by him, since we are engaged in the matter. By all means, then, send him today. † [verso] To my master in all things, most illustrious and worthy of all honour, true brother George, dioiketes, † Victor, illustris, with God's help antigeouchos. †

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