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p.oxy.41.2983 II - IIIOxyrhynchos

Letter of Harpalus to Heras via HGV-meta

Letter from Harpalos to his brother Heras about goods, payments and a detained camel. A business letter from Harpalos to his brother Heras, dealing with letters between lawyers, shipments of fish sauce and wine, money for hides from the Oasis, and a dispute over a camel wrongly detained in connection with a debt of 1,000 drachmas involving Herakleides and the Great Oasis. Oxyrhynchus, 2nd-3rd century AD. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] Ἅρπαλος Ἡρᾶτι τῶι ἀδελφῷ χαίρειν. ἔγραψα …[…]… διὰ Ἡρακλείδου …[…] τα τῆς οἰκονομίας σου· συνέδησα ἐπιστολήν μου καὶ ἄλλην τοῦ ἐνθάδε νομικοῦ πρὸς τὸν παρὰ σοὶ νομικόν. ἐκομισάμην παρὰ Ἀμμωνίου τὰ πεμφθέντα μοι. ἔπεμψα δέ σοι διʼ αὐτοῦ κνίδιν γάρου χρηστοῦ, λαβόντος παρʼ ἐμοῦ εἰς λόγον ναύλου καὶ φορέτρου δραχμὰς ϛ. τὸ ἐπιστόλιον τὸ τῆς ἐπιθήκης τὸ διαπεμφθέν σοι ἀπʼ Ἀλεξανδρείας διὰ ἀσφαλοῦς μοι πέμψον. ἐκομισάμην παρὰ Ἡρακλείδου σπάθιον οἴνου. καὶ μὴ βαροῦ. οὗτινος γὰρ ἐὰν χρείαν σχῶ, γράψω σοι. ἐγράφη μοι ἀπὸ Ὀάσεως ὑπὸ Λεωνίδου ὡς τοῦ φίλου μεταβαλόντος αὐτῷ τὴν τιμὴν τῶν δερμάτων. ἐξέτασον παρὰ σοὶ πόσον αὐτῷ μετεβάλετο εἰς τὸν λόγον μου. καὶ ἐρεῖς Πατρ…[…]… τι ὅτι Ἡρακλείδης οὐδέν μοι ὀφείλει ἀπὸ λόγου τῆς μεγάλης Ὀάσεως καὶ οὐκ ἐχρῆν τὸν κάμηλον κατασχεῖν. ἐγὼ γὰρ μιμούμενος ἐμαυτὸν μέχρι τούτου οὐδὲν ἔπραξα, καὶ μέχρι τούτου ἤτω. τὰς γὰρ δραχμὰς Α, ἃς μετεβάλετο ὁ Ἡρακλείδης τοῖς αὑτοῦ ἐν τῇ μεγάλῃ Ὀάσι, ταύτας ἔσχεν ἐν τῷ Ὀξυρυγχείτῃ καὶ ἐμοὶ μετεβάλετο ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ Ὀξυρυγχείτῃ ὀφειλομένας μοι ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ. εἰκῇ οὖν κατεῖχον τὸν κάμηλον. πάντα μεταδώσεις αὐτῷ. περὶ ὧν βούλει, ἀνόκνως μοι γράφε. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι [v] Ἡρᾶτι παρὰ Ἁρπάλου τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ.

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
Harpalos to Heras his brother, greetings. I wrote […] through Herakleides […] the matters of your management (?); I bound together a letter of mine and another from the lawyer here to the lawyer with you. I received from Ammonios the things sent to me, and I sent you through him a jar of good fish sauce, he having received from me 6 drachmas on account of fare and carriage. The note about the deposit (?) that was sent to you from Alexandria, send to me by a safe person. I received from Herakleides a spathion of wine. And do not trouble yourself: whatever I need, I will write to you. I was written to from the Oasis by Leonidas that our friend had transferred to him the price of the hides. Find out at your end how much was transferred to him on my account. And you will tell Patr[…] that Herakleides owes me nothing on the account of the Great Oasis, and the camel ought not to have been detained. For I, being true to myself, have done nothing up to now, and let it rest at that. For the 1,000 drachmas which Herakleides transferred to his people in the Great Oasis, he had these in the Oxyrhynchite nome and transferred them to me in the same Oxyrhynchite nome, as owed to me by him. So they were wrong to detain the camel. You will pass everything on to him. About whatever you wish, write to me without hesitation. I pray for your health. [verso] To Heras from Harpalos his brother.

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