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p.oxy.3.532 IIOxyrhynchos

Letter of Heraclides via HGV-meta

Letter from Herakleides to Hatres demanding payment of 20 drachmas. A private letter from Herakleides to Hatres, reproaching him for failing to send 20 drachmas that Herakleides had assigned to his partners. He demands immediate payment to the letter carrier and threatens to come in person, recalling that Hatres avoided him at Paomis out of a guilty conscience. Written at Oxyrhynchus in the 2nd century AD. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

Ἡρακλείδης Ἁτρῆτι τῶι φιλτάτῳ χαίρειν. ἔδει μέν σε χωρὶς τοῦ με γεγραφέναι σοι διὰ Σαήτου ἀναπέμψαι τὰς δραχμὰς κ, εἰδὼς ὅτι αὐτόθι μετεβαλόμην τοῖς κοινωνοῖς μου αὐτάς, ἀλλὰ ἀνέμεινας τὸν τοσοῦτον χρόνον μὴ ἀποδούς. ἀναγκαίως οὖν τῷ ἀναδιδοῦντι σοι τὸ ἐπιστόλιον τοῦτο εὐθέως ἀπόδος ὅπως καὶ ἐμὲ ἄσκυλτον ποιήσῃς. ὅρα οὖν μὴ ἄλλως πράξῃς καὶ ποιήσῃς με πρὸς σὲ ἐλθεῖν συνζητήσοντά σοι. καὶ γὰρ ἐν Παώμει τότε σε εὗρον καὶ βουλόμενόν σε φιλανθρωπῆσαι οὐκ ἀνέμεινας ὑπὸ κακοῦ συνειδότος κατεχόμενος.

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
Herakleides to his dearest Hatres, greetings. You ought, even without my writing to you, to have sent up the 20 drachmas by Saetes, knowing that I transferred them there to my partners; but you have waited all this time without paying. So it is imperative that you pay at once to the bearer of this letter, so that you may spare me trouble too. See to it then that you do not act otherwise and make me come to you to have it out with you. For indeed I found you at Paomis then, and when I wished to treat you kindly you did not wait, held back by a bad conscience.

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Found at Oxyrhynchus

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