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p.oxy.36.2783 IIIOxyrhynchos
Letter of Apollonius to Artemas via HGV-meta
Letter from Apollonios to Artemas about money, oil and camels. A private letter from Apollonios to his 'brother' Artemas at Oxyrhynchus in the 3rd century AD. He reports payments, complains about Artemas' expensive oil purchases, defends himself against accusations of abuse and of detaining a camel, mentions trouble over the camels of Koptos, and criticizes Artemas' in-laws. machine translation
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- Letter of Apollonius to Artemas HGV-meta OxyrhynchosIII
Inscriptions (1)
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· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[r]
Ἀπολλώνιος Ἀρτεμᾷ τῷ ἀδελφῷ χαίρειν.
πρὸ μὲν παντὸς εὔχομαι πᾶσι τοῖς θεοῖς τὰ ἐν βίῳ
σοι κάλλιστα ὑπαρχθῆναι· καὶ νῦν τῷ ἀδελφῷ σου ἔδωκα δραχμὰς φ καὶ τῷ Πτολεμαίῳ ἤδη
μετεβαλόμην ἀπὸ μέρους, καθὼς ἠθέλησεν. θαυμάζω δὲ ὅτι εἰς μὲν ἔλαιον
τὸ τοσοῦτο ἀργύριον ἐχώρησαι. ἓξ δὶς ἔβαλες· ἐνθάδε γὰρ τὸ Ἀμμωνιακὸν δραχμῶν σκ,
τὸ δὲ Αὐαστικὸν δραχμῶν σ· ὅθεν εἰ εἰς ἄλλην
χρείαν λαμβάνεις δυναμένην ἡμᾶς
ὠφελῆσαι, καλῶς ποιεῖς. ἔγραψας δέ μοι
ὡς ἐμοῦ σε κατακόπτοντος ἄποντα,
καὶ τοῦτο δὲ χείρω τῶν πρώτων. εἰ
γὰρ ἀπαρτὶ ἐπίστασαί μου τὴν γνώμην,
οὐκ ὀφείλεις ἄνθρωπος κρίνεσθαι. καὶ ἄλλοτέ σοι ἔγραψα ὅτι οὔτʼ ἐγὼ τὸν κάμηλον
Ἑρμία κατέσχον οὔτε ἄλλου τινός. εἰ δὲ
ταῦτα θέλεις με γράφειν, γράφω σοι. τάχα γὰρ
οὐκ ἀναγιγνώσκεις ἅ σοι γράφω. ὅσα δὲ
ἔπαθον ἐνθάδε χάριν τῶν καμήλων
τῆς Κόπτου ὅ τε Ἀμμωνᾶς καὶ ὁ αὐτοματάρις Ἀνθρωπᾶς καὶ οἱ ἄλλοι πάντες δύνασαι ἀκοῦσαι ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ σου. οἱ
δὲ γαμβροί σου οἱ κατάρατοι στρηνιῶσι
καὶ πολλὰ ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν προῆλθον χάριν
σοῦ. ἐὰν[…]…[…]……
[…]… βουλὴν ἔχω, ἐρῶ σοι. ἵνα μὴ δοκῶ
πολλὰ γράφειν, ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι.
τὸν τυφλὸν ὁ ἀδελφός σου ἠνάγκασέ με πωλῆσαι·
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Ἀρτεμᾷ παρὰ Ἀπολλωνίου.Translations (1)
[recto]
Apollonios to Artemas his brother, greetings.
Before all else I pray to all the gods that the finest things in life may be yours. And now I have given your brother 500 drachmas, and to Ptolemaios I have already transferred part, as he wished. I am surprised that you have spent so much money on oil. You put in six twice (?); for here the Ammoniac is 220 drachmas and the Oasis oil 200 drachmas. So if you are taking it for some other purpose that can benefit us, you do well. You wrote to me as though I were abusing you in your absence, and this is worse than the first things. For if you know my mind fully, you ought not to be judged as a mere man (?). I also wrote to you on another occasion that I neither detained Hermias' camel nor anyone else's. If you want me to write these things, I write them to you; for perhaps you do not read what I write to you. What Ammonas and the automataris Anthropas and all the others suffered here on account of the camels of Koptos you can hear from your brother. Your accursed brothers-in-law are running riot, and I went to great lengths on their behalf for your sake. If […] […] I have a plan, I will tell you. So as not to seem to write too much, I pray for your health.
Your brother forced me to sell the blind one.
[verso]
To Artemas from Apollonios.
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- TM-Text 30385 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;36;2783 tier-1
- HGV-Text 30385 tier-1
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