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p.oxy.41.2985 II - IIIOxyrhynchos

Letter of Theon to Chaeremon via HGV-meta

Letter from Theon to Chairemon about fodder, chaff and wine. A private business letter from Theon to Chairemon, probably a farm manager, giving instructions about fodder (trodden hay and chaff) at Tholthis, the sale of orchard wine, wages for manure work, and sending six jars of wine by donkey. It dates to the 2nd or 3rd century AD and comes from Oxyrhynchus. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r,ctr] [… ? lines lost …] [r,minf] [v] παρὰ Θέωνος χαῖρε Χαιρήμων. ἐὰν μάθῃς ὅτι χρείαν ἔχεις χορτοπατήματος εἰς τὴν Θῶλθιν μετένεγκον τὸ τοῦ Ἑκυσίου ἐκεῖ. ἀλλὰ πολὺ ἄχυρον παραμιγήτω ἵνα μὴ ταχέως ἀναλωθῇ· ὅταν γὰρ τὰ τοῦ πωμαρίου οἰνάρια πραθῇ, τότε δύνασαι χορτοπάτημα ἐκεῖ ἀγοράσαι. τάχα γὰρ εὔωνον ἔσται τοῦ ὕδατος προσβαίνοντος. μὴ ἀμελήσῃς τῆς μεταφορᾶς τοῦ ἀχύρου τῆς Θώλθεως. ἄρτι δὲ μισθὸν μὴ δίδου κτῆσι χάριν κόπρου ἄχρι τῆς ἀναβάσεως. ἵνα μὴ μισθὸν διδῷς. ἔρρωσο. ἀνάπεμψον εἰς διαταγὴν οἴνου κεράμια ϛ ἐκ τοῦ πωμαρίου διὰ τῆς ὄνου Κοπρέως, ἀλλὰ ἤδη, καὶ ἑνὸς τῶν υἱῶν αὐτοῦ.

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] [… lines lost …] [verso] From Theon. Greetings, Chairemon. If you find that you need trodden hay (?), transfer to Tholthis the stock of Hekysios that is there. But let plenty of chaff be mixed in so that it is not used up quickly; for when the cheap wines of the orchard are sold, then you can buy trodden hay there. For perhaps it will be cheap as the water rises. Do not neglect the transport of the chaff from Tholthis. And for now do not pay wages to the animals (?) for the sake of manure until the inundation, so that you do not pay wages. Farewell. Send up for the allowance 6 jars of wine from the orchard by the donkey of Kopreus, and do it now, and by one of his sons.

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Found at Oxyrhynchus

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