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p.oxy.20.2276 spätes III - IVOxyrhynchos
Letter from Aurelius Artemidorus via HGV-meta
Letter from Aurelius Artemidoros to the wife of Aurelius Apollonios. A private letter from Aurelius Artemidoros to a woman, the wife of Aurelius Apollonios, reporting on efforts by his brother Dioskourides to obtain a document with a Latin text and Greek translation for 40 drachmas, and on matters concerning someone's release involving a certain Didymos. Written at Oxyrhynchus in the late 3rd or 4th century AD, it closes with a Christian greeting. machine translation
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TM 30489.
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- Letter from Aurelius Artemidorus HGV-meta Oxyrhynchosspätes III - IV
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[r]
[… ? lines lost …]
[…]πολα…[…]
[…]Διοσκουρίδης ὁ ἐμὸς ἀδελφὸς[…]
[…]εν τοὺς ταῦτα ἐκλαβόντας
καὶ ὑποσχόμενοι παρέξειν μετὰ δεήσεως πολλῆς συνεφωνήθησαν λαβεῖν δραχμὰς μ καὶ παραστῆσαι[…] Διοσκουρίδου χάρτην ᾗ ἐνεγράφη τά τε ῥωμαϊκὰ καὶ ἡ τούτων ἑρμηνεία. αὖθίς τε
παρελθόντες πρὸς αὐτοὺς ἄμεινον ἔφασαν
παραθέσιμα γεγονέναι τὰς …[…]υ[…]αρ…τε…
[…]α αὐτοῖς δὲ σκεψαμένοις …στε…μα
[…]υ ἐλογίσατο μᾶλλον συνευπορήσειν …[…]
[…]μμάτων δοῦναι τὰς δραχμὰς μ καὶ διαπέμψαι·
καίτοι ἢ μηδὲν λαβόντα ὑπολαμβάνεις
ἢ ἠμεληκέναι; τὰ οὖν πραχθέντα ταῦτά
ἐστιν. ὑπέσχετο δὲ ἐξελθόντα αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τὰ
ἐνχειρισθέντα αὐτῷ ὑπὸ τῆς βουλῆς γενόμενον αὐτὸν ἐνταῦθα ἀνακοινώσασθαι αὐτὰ
τῷ Διδύμῳ καὶ παρʼ αὐτοῦ μαθεῖν τὰ μετὰ ταῦτα καὶ τὰ περὶ τῆς ἀπολύσεως πραχθέντα·
καὶ Κρίτων δὲ ὁ τοῦ Ἐπιμάχου ἐνέγκας μοι τάδε τὰ
γράμματα τοῦ αἰτήσαντος ἀπὸ σοῦ διαπεμφθέντα τὸ κέρμα. τοῦτο δὲ πυθόμενος ὁ ἀδελφός μου
Διοσκουρίδης ἐποίησεν ἐκεῖνον ἀποκατασταθῆναι
καὶ ναι δίκαιον …νον προίστασθαι
[…]καταγράψαντος και…ουσπερ καὶ πέμψει πρός σε. καὶ ἐγὼ εἰ παρὰ βοηθῶν τοῦ Διδύμου
φυλακειτῶν αὐτοῦ ἕτερόν τι καταλαβῶμαι
γράψω σοι. ἀσπάζομαι κατʼ ὄνομα τὰ ἀβάσκαντά
σου παιδία, μεθʼ ὧν ἐρρωμένην σε ἐν κυρίῳ
θεῷ εὔχομαι.
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[…]ωναρίῳ συνβίῳ Αὐρηλίου Ἀπολλωνίου …[…]υλ…α…εξ
παρὰ Αὐρηλίου ἈρτεμιδώρουTranslations (1)
[recto]
[…]
[…] […]
[…] Dioskourides my brother […]
[…] those who had undertaken these things
[and] promising to provide them, with much entreaty they agreed to receive 40 drachmas and to present […] of Dioskourides a sheet on which were written both the Latin text and its translation. And again
going to them they said it was better
[…] that the […] had been deposited (?) […]
[…] but to them having considered […]
[…] he reckoned it better to help in providing […]
[…] to give the 40 drachmas and to send them on;
yet do you suppose that he received nothing
[or] that he was negligent? So these are the things that were done. He promised that, when he went out on the
matters entrusted to him by the council, once he was there he would communicate them
to Didymos and learn from him what followed and what was done about the release;
and Kriton son of Epimachos brought me this
letter of the one who asked that the small change be sent on from you. When my brother
Dioskourides learned this, he had that man restored
and […] that it was right […] to take charge
[…] having registered […] and will send [to] you. And I, if from the assistants of Didymos,
his guards, I learn anything further,
will write to you. I greet by name your children, may the evil eye spare them, with whom I pray that you are well in the Lord God.
[verso]
To […]onarion, wife of Aurelius Apollonios […]
from Aurelius Artemidoros
Connections
Found at
Oxyrhynchus
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 30489 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;20;2276 tier-1
- HGV-Text 30489 tier-1
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