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Letter of Diogenes to Apollogenes via HGV-meta

Letter from Diogenes to Apollogenes ordering vines to be cut down. A private letter from Diogenes to Apollogenes, written at Oxyrhynchus in the 2nd century AD, about managing an estate. Diogenes impatiently repeats his order to cut down certain vines and resow the land, questions the need for three teams of animals to irrigate a small vineyard at Chalothis, and acknowledges receipt of a jar of olives. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] Διογένης Ἀπολλογένει τῶι φιλτάτωι …… χαίρειν. μυριάκις γεγραφὼς ἐκκόψαι τὰ πρὸς τῷ Φάι αμπε[…]… ὡς ἔδοξεν Δημητρίῳ τῷ γυμνασιάρχῳ καὶ Ἀδράστῳ καὶ Σώτᾳ πάλιν σου ἔλαβον ἐπιστολὴν σήμερον πυνθανομένου τί βούλομαι γενέσθαι. πρὸς ἣν ἀντιγράφω ἔκκοψον ἔκκοψον ἔκκοψον ἔκκοψον ἔκκοψον· ἰδοὺ πλειστάκις λέγω· καὶ σπαρήτω οἷς δεῖ γενέσθαι μετὰ τῆς …[…]…της νῦν ἐν χόρτῳ οὔσης ὅταν ὁ χόρτος βρωθῇ ἢ κοπῇ· θαυμάζω εἰ χρεία ἐστὶ τριῶν ζευγῶν εἰς ἐπαντλησμὸν τῆς ἐν Χαλώθει ἀμπέλου εἰς ὀλίγον περιεσταμένης. οὐ γὰρ τῆς τιμῆς ἐστιν τοῦ περισσοῦ ζεύγους ὡς τῶν τροφῶν καὶ τῆς ἄλλης δαπάνης. εἰ δέ γε σὺ δοκεῖς χρείαν εἶναι, διάπεμψαι τὴν ἐπιστολήν μου εἰς Ὀξυρυγχ…ν πρὸς Σαραπίωνα ἣν συνειλη[…]…[…]…η, ᾧ δηλώσεις πότερον ἀρσενικὸν θέλεις […] ἀντὶ τῶν ἀρσένων θηλυκὸν …ο…ον δὲ θηλυκοῦ χρείαν εχ…[…] ἐλάσσονα ἴσθι . ἐκομισάμην δε[…] τὸ κεράμιον τῆς ἐλαίας τὰ δὲ ἄλλα […] γέγραφα, φύλασσε ἕως ἂν παρὰ σοὶ γένωμαι. ἔρρωσο φίλτατε Ἀπολλογένη. ἔρρωσο. Μεχεὶρ ιϛ. [v] …

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EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] Diogenes to his dearest Apollogenes, […] greeting. Having written to you countless times to cut down the [vines?] near Phai[…] […], as Demetrios the gymnasiarch and Adrastos and Sotas decided, I again received a letter from you today asking what I want done. To which I reply: cut them down, cut them down, cut them down, cut them down, cut them down! There, I say it many times over. And let it be sown with whatever should be grown, together with the […] which is now under fodder, when the fodder has been grazed or cut. I am surprised if there is need of three teams for the irrigation of the vineyard at Chalothis, which has been reduced to a small area. For it is not so much a matter of the price of the extra team as of its feed and the other expense. But if you think there is need, send my letter on to Sarapion at Oxyrhynchus, which I have enclosed (?) […], and you will tell him whether you want a male […] instead of the males a female […]; but know that […] of a female […] less. I received […] the jar of olives; the other things […] I have written, keep them until I come to you. Farewell, dearest Apollogenes. Farewell. Mecheir 16. [verso] …

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