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p.oxy.16.1935 VIOxyrhynchos

Letter to a Secretary via HGV-meta

Letter from Diogenes to the secretary Theodoros about returning a machine. A short letter from Diogenes to Theodoros, a secretary, asking him to make the field-guards of the Meskanounis estate return a machine belonging to the most admirable Papnouthios. It dates to the 6th century AD and comes from Oxyrhynchus. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] παρὰ † καταξιώσῃ ἡ σὴ ἀδελφότης παρασκεύασον τοὺς ἀγροφύλακας τοῦ κτήματος Μεσκανούνιος ἀναδοῦναι τὴν μηχανὴν τοῦ θαυμασιωτάτου Παπνουθίου, ὡς καὶ ἄλλοτε εἴρηκα τοῖς φροντισταῖς τοῦ αὐτοῦ κτήματος. ἀλλὰ πάραυτα ποίησον αὐτούς, ὡς εἶπον, ἀναδοῦναι τὴν μηχανὴν τῷ εἰρημένῳ ἀνδρί. ☧ [v] † ἐπίδος τῷ τὰ πάντα …… Θεοδώρῳ γραμματεῖ † παρὰ Διογένους. † [… 21 lines lost …]

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] From […] † May your brotherliness deign to arrange for the field-guards of the estate of Meskanounis to hand over the water-machine of the most admirable Papnouthios, as I have also said on another occasion to the managers of the same estate. But at once make them, as I said, hand over the machine to the said man. ☧ [verso] † Deliver to the all-[…] Theodoros, secretary, † from Diogenes. † [… 21 lines lost …]

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Found at Oxyrhynchus

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