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p.oxy.34.2731 IV - VOxyrhynchos

Letter from Maximus via HGV-meta

Letter from Maximus to his mother Zenobia asking her to send his wife. A Christian private letter from Maximus to his mother Zenobia, sent with a traveller, exchanging greetings and urgently asking her, after repeated requests, to send his wife Salamaei to him, since his commanding officer, the praepositus, will not give anyone leave. It dates to the 4th or 5th century AD and comes from Oxyrhynchus. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] τῇ κυρίᾳ μου μητρὶ Ζηνοβίᾳ Μάξιμος ἐν κυρίῳ θεῷ χαίρειν. καὶ νῦν κατʼ εὐχὴν συμβέβηκεν εὐπορεῖν τοῦ προσερχομένου καὶ τὴν σὴν ἀμίμητον διάθεσιν προσειπεῖν. πρόσειπε ἀπʼ ἐμοῦ τὴν σύμβιόν μου Σαλαμάει· ἀσπάζεται ὑμᾶς ἡ μήτηρ μου Ῥουφῖνα· πρόσειπε ἀπʼ ἐμοῦ τοὺς ἀδελφούς μου κατʼ ὄνομα· ἅπαξ καὶ δὶς καὶ τρὶς ἐδήλωσά σου τοῦ σε ἀποστεῖλαι τὴν σύμβιόν μου καὶ οὐκ ἐβουλήθης· νῦν δὲ μὴ ἀμελήσῃς νυκτὸς καὶ ἡμέρας τοῦ σε ἀποστεῖλαί με τὴν σύμβιόν μου. κλέος γάρ μού ἐστιν καὶ ε…δ…ξι…[…] τοῦ με παριέναι πρὸς ὑμᾶς· πάλαι μὲν καὶ ὑμεῖς οὐκ ἀγνοεῖτε ὅτι ὁ κύριός μου πραιπόσιτιος οὐκ ἀπολύει οὐδένα. παρακαλῶ δέ, ἀντιγράψατέ μοι ὑπὲρ τῆς ὑμῶν ὑγιείας ἵνα ὑπερθέμενος ευθυμης…[…] προσαγορεύω πάντας τοὺς ἡδέως ὑμᾶς ἔχοντας κατʼ ὄνομα. ἐρρῶσθαι ὑμᾶς εὔχομαι πολλοῖς χρόνοις. [v] …[…]…[…] Ζηνοβίᾳ παρὰ Μαξίμου […]… χαίρειν

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] To my lady mother Zenobia, Maximus, greeting in the Lord God. Now too, as I prayed, it has happened that I found the man coming to you and can greet your incomparable disposition. Greet from me my wife Salamaei. My mother Rufina greets you. Greet from me my brothers by name. Once and twice and three times I informed you that you should send my wife, and you were unwilling. Now therefore do not neglect, night and day, to send me my wife. For it is my glory and […] that I should come to you. You yourselves have long known that my lord the praepositus releases no one. I beg you, write back to me about your health, so that, having put off (?) […] I may be cheerful (?) […]. I greet by name all who are fond of you. I pray for your health for many years. [verso] […] to Zenobia from Maximus […] greeting.

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Found at Oxyrhynchus

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