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Official Letter from Hierax to Herculanus via HGV-meta
Letter from Hierax to Herculanus about delegations for soldiers' pay. An official letter from Hierax to Herculanus concerning military pay arrangements in late 3rd- or early 4th-century Egypt. Hierax explains that, by order of the catholicus (finance official), petitions from the praepositi pass through him to the catholicus's office, and that the resulting delegations for a birthday donative of the Caesar Maximian, the stipend due on 1 September, and salgamum will be sent on by express courier when they arrive. machine translation
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- Official Letter from Hierax to Herculanus HGV-meta Untere Thebais
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Transcription
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κυρίῳ ἀδελφῷ Ἡρκουλανῷ Ἱέραξ
εὖ πράττειν.
τὰ μὲν γράμματά σου κομισάμενος, κύριέ μου ἀδελφέ, πανήγυριν ἤγαγον. ὡς δὲ καὶ τῷ κυρίῳ μου ἀδελφῷ Ἡλιοδώρῳ
τῷ πραιποσίτῳ διὰ δημοσίας ἐπιστολῆς φανερὸν πεποίηκα, χρη…[…]…[…]α διὰ τὴν θείαν τύχην
τῶν δεσποτῶν ἡμῶν τῶν Σεβαστῶν καὶ τῶν
Καισάρων·
κελεύσεως δὲ οὔσης τοῦ κυρίου μου τοῦ διασημοτάτου καθολικοῦ
πέμπειν τοὺς πραιποσίτους πρός με τὰς πετιτίονας καὶ
ὑπʼ ἐμοῦ πρὸς τὴν τάξιν τὴν καθολικήν, ἵνα αἱ δηληγατίονες ὑπὸ τοῦ κυρίου μου τοῦ διασημοτάτου καθολικοῦ
ἐκπεμφθ[…]…ατα…[…]…… στρατη[…]…
προστάξαι …[…]…εν…ε
επιο…[…]ν…[…]μίαν τοῦ δωνατίου
γενεθλίου τοῦ δεσπότου ἡμῶν Μαξιμιανοῦ τοῦ Καίσαρος,
ἄλλην δὲ στιπενδίου καλανδῶν Σεπτεμβρίων, καὶ τὴν
τρίτην σαλγάμου. αἱ μὲν πετιτίονες ἐπὶ τὸν κύριόν
μου τὸν διασημότατον καθολικὸν ἀνηνέχθησαν.
ἐπειδὰν δὲ αἱ δηληγατίονες ἀπαντῶσιν, εὐθέως ὑπʼ ἐμοῦ
διὰ ταχυδρόμου ἐπισταλήσονται. θεοί σε σῴζοιεν
μετὰ τῶν φιλτάτων διὰ παντός.
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[…]…… ἀδελφῷ Ἡρκουλανῷ.[…]Translations (1)
[recto]
To my lord brother Herculanus, Hierax, greetings (literally: to fare well).
On receiving your letter, my lord brother, I held a celebration. As I have also made clear to my lord brother Heliodoros the praepositus by an official letter, […] through the divine fortune of our masters the Augusti and the Caesars.
Since there is an order of my lord the most distinguished catholicus that the praepositi should send the petitions to me, and that I should send them to the office of the catholicus, so that the delegations (delegationes) may be sent out by my lord the most distinguished catholicus […] strategos (?) […] to order […] one for the donative for the birthday of our master Maximian the Caesar, another for the stipend of the Kalends of September, and the third for salgamum. The petitions have been forwarded to my lord the most distinguished catholicus. As soon as the delegations arrive, they will immediately be dispatched by me by express courier. May the gods preserve you with your dearest ones always.
[verso]
[…] to brother Herculanus […]
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- TM-Text 16885 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;31;2561 tier-1
- HGV-Text 16885 tier-1
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