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p.oxy.48.3397r IVOxyrhynchos
Letter from Papnuthis to Dorotheus via HGV-meta
Letter from Papnouthis to Dorotheos about workmen's expenses and the aruratio. A private business letter from Papnouthis to his associate Dorotheos at Oxyrhynchus in the 4th century AD. Papnouthis urgently demands money for workmen's expenses and for Felix, complains of trouble with tax collectors, and says he is held in confinement over gold owed for the aruratio land tax. machine translation
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- Letter from Papnuthis to Dorotheus HGV-meta OxyrhynchosIV
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
κυρίῳ μου ἀδελφῷ Δωροθέῳ
Παπνοῦτις.
πολλάκις σοι ἔγραψα περὶ τοῦ ἀναλώματος
τῶν ἐργατῶν καὶ οὐδέν μοι ἀπέστειλας·
μὰ τὸν γὰρ Θεὸν καθʼ ἑκάστην ποιῶ μεγάλην
ἀηδίαν μετὰ τῶν ἀπαιτητῶν τούτου χάριν.
σπούδασον ἐν τῇ σήμερον ἀπόστειλον
τὸ ἀνάλωμα τῶν αὐτῶν ἐργατῶν· οἶδας
καὶ σὺ τί ἐστιν προσδοχή. ἐὰν γνῷς ὅτι
οἱ κώμαρχοι οὐκ ἠθέλησαν δοῦναι αὐτά,
ἀπόστειλόν μοι τοὺς κωμάρχας καὶ ποιῶ αὐτοὺς πάντα πληρῶσαι ἐπὶ τῆς πόλεως.
καὶ σπούδασον τὰ ἀργύρια Φήλικι ἀποστεῖλαι
ἐν τῇ σήμερον· ἐν τούτῳ γὰρ οὐ βλάπτῃ. μὴ
ἀφῇς ἡμᾶς ἐν περιστάσει τούτου χάριν.
καὶ περὶ τῶν ἀναλωμάτων ἃ δέδωκα
ὑπὲρ τῶν κωμαρχῶν, σπούδασον ἀπὸ τῆς
ἀπαιτήσεως αἴρειν και ἀποστεῖλαι ἢ τοὺς
κωμάρχας ἀπόστειλον ἐπὶ τὴν πόλιν
οἶδες καὶ σὺ τὰ κακὰ τῆς πόλεως καὶ τὰ
ἀναλώματα. καὶ κατάκλειστός εἰμι ἕνεκεν
τοῦ χρυσίου τῆς ἀρουρατίωνος καὶ ἕως
σήμερον οὐδὲν ἀπέστειλας. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι πολλοῖς χρόνοις.Translations (1)
To my lord brother Dorotheos,
Papnouthis.
I have written to you many times about the expense money for the workmen and you have sent me nothing. For by God, every day I have a great deal of unpleasantness with the collectors on this account. Make haste today and send the expense money for these same workmen; you yourself know what the expectation is. If you find that the village headmen refused to give it, send me the village headmen and I will make them pay everything in full in the city. And make haste to send the money to Felix today, for in this you suffer no harm. Do not leave us in difficulty on this account. And about the expenses which I paid on behalf of the village headmen, make haste to take them from the collection and send them, or send the village headmen to the city. You too know the troubles of the city and the expenses. And I am locked up because of the gold for the aruratio, and up to today you have sent nothing.
I pray for your health for many years.
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Oxyrhynchus
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 33709 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;48;3397r tier-1
- HGV-Text 33709 tier-1
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