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p.oxy.4.745 ca. 1Oxyrhynchos

Letter to Gaius Rustius via HGV-meta

Letter to Gaius Rustius about a wine deal and a dispute with Antas. The end of a private letter to Gaius Rustius about a business affair involving 65 jars of wine, a written undertaking made through Artemas, and a promise given through the politarch Theophilos concerning a certain Antas. The writer complains that Antas treated him in Oxyrhynchus like a defaulter even though he had paid, and asks Rustius to keep his word to avoid a quarrel between friends. It dates to around AD 1. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] [… ? lines lost …] ἀδελφῆς μου οἴνου κεράμια ἑξήκοντα πέντε καὶ δραχμὰς δέκα τὸν δὲ οἶνον ἠγόρασας ἐκ δραχμῶν ἕξ , ὑπὲρ ὧν καὶ ἔθου χειρόγραφον διὰ Ἀρτεμᾶτός μοι περὶ τοῦ αὐτὸν τὸν Ἀντᾶν ἀποστήσειν διὰ τὸ κ…[…]κέναι ὡς καὶ ὑπέσχου διὰ τοῦ πολιτάρχου Θεοφίλου, μὴ[…]νε[…]…η[…]να ἄνωθεν γείνηται πάντα καὶ πάλιν ἑαυτοὺς ἀνασκευάζωμεν μὴ οὔσης χρείας. οὐκ οἶδας γὰρ πῶς μοι ἐχρήσατο ἐν Ὀξυρύγχοις οὐχ ὡς λύσαντι ἀλλʼ ὥς τινί ποτε ἀποστερητῇ μὴ ἀποδεδωκότι. ἐρωτῶ οὖν σε μὴ ἄλλως ποιῆσαι, οἶδα δὲ ὅτι πάντα καλῶς ποιήσεις· οὐ θέλω γὰρ ἀμφισβήτησιν πρὸς σὲ ἔχειν φίλον μου ὄντα. ἀσπάζου πάντας τοὺς σοὺς καὶ σεαυτοῦ ἐπιμέλου ἵνʼ ὑγιαίνῃς. ἔρρωσο. [v] Γαίωι Ῥουστίωι […]

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] […] of my sister 65 jars of wine and 10 drachmas, and you bought the wine at 6 drachmas, for which you also made out a written undertaking to me through Artemas about getting rid of (?) Antas himself, because he has […] as you also promised through the politarch Theophilos, so that […] everything does not happen all over again and we have to upset ourselves again when there is no need. For you do not know how he treated me in Oxyrhynchus, not as one who had paid but as some defrauder who had not paid back. I ask you therefore not to act otherwise, but I know that you will do everything well; for I do not want to have a dispute with you, since you are my friend. Greet all your people and take care of yourself so that you stay well. Farewell. [verso] To Gaius Rustius […]

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Found at Oxyrhynchus

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