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p.oxy.16.1865 VI - VIIOxyrhynchos

Letter to an Exceptor via HGV-meta

Letter from Ioannes to the exceptor Martyrios about property seized by Julianus. A letter from Ioannes to Martyrios, an exceptor (official stenographer), asking him to help recover property that a certain Julianus had wrongfully taken. The writer argues that things seized in war must be returned in peace. 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] παρὰ καὶ κατὰ πρόσωπον παρεκάλεσα τὴν σὴν λαμπρὰν ἀδελφότητα ἵνα μὴ ἐάσῃ, ὃ καὶ ὀφειλόμενον, τοῦ δικαίου ἀπαλλαγῆναι ἡμᾶς. οἶδα γὰρ ὅτι φίλον φιλεῖς καὶ οὐ δύνῃ αὐτὸν λυπῆσαι. καὶ πολλάκις ἐξῆν γρᾶψαί σοι περὶ τοῦ κεφαλαίου τούτου, καὶ προσδοκῶν καθʼ ἑκάστην καταλαμβάνειν ἐκεῖσε τούτου ἕνεκεν οὐκ ἐχρησάμην ἄλλην γράψαι ἄλλοις γράμμασιν. καὶ παρακαλῶ τὴν σὴν λαμπρὰν ἀδελφότητα γράψῃ μοι περὶ τούτου, ἵνα ἐμοῦ σὺν θεῷ εὐχομένου μὴ δόξῃ μοι τί ποτε ἀκαθοσίωτον ποιῆσαι. οὐ καλῶς γὰρ ἐποίησεν ὁ κύριος Ἰουλιανὸς τὰ μὴ ἀνήκοντα αὐτὸν λαβεῖν, εἰ δὲ[…]…εν καὶ ἔλαβεν, ἀνάγκην ἔχει ἀναδοῦναι, τὰ γὰρ ἐν πολέμῳ ἁρπαζόμενα ἐν εἰρήνῃ ἀναδίδονται. καὶ ἀνάγκην ἔχει τὴν ἀσφάλειαν ἣν ἐποίησα καὶ πρὸς τὴν ἀσφάλειαν ποιῆσαι. καὶ πρὸς τὸ γνῶναι τὸν ἐμὸν δεσπότην ἐχρησάμην παρακαλῶν διὰ τούτων μου τῶν γραμμάτων. τὸ δὲ κεφάλαιον τῆς ἐπιστολῆς πολλὰ προσκυνῶ τὸν ἐμὸν δεσπότην. † [v] † δεσπότῃ ἐμῷ τὰ πάντα λαμπροτάτῳ πάσης τιμῆς ἀξίῳ προστάτῃ μετὰ τὸν θεὸν κυρίῳ Μαρτυρίῳ ἐξκέπτορι † Ἰωάννης Κυνο…[…]

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] From […] I also begged your illustrious brotherliness face to face not to allow us to be deprived of what is just, which is also owed. For I know that you love a friend and cannot grieve him. And often it was possible to write to you about this matter, and expecting each day to arrive there, for this reason I did not choose to write another letter in other words. And I beg your illustrious brotherliness to write to me about this, so that, as I pray with God, it may not seem to me that I have done anything unholy. For the lord Julianus did not act well in taking what did not belong to him; but if […] and he took it, he is obliged to give it back, for things seized in war are given back in peace. And he is obliged to make the security which I made, and in addition to the security. And so that my master may know, I have made use of these letters of mine to appeal. The main point of the letter: I greatly salute my master. † [verso] † To my master, in all things most illustrious, worthy of all honour, patron after God, lord Martyrios, exceptor, † Ioannes Kyno[…]

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