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p.oxy.48.3416 ca. 376 (?)Oxyrhynchos
Letter from Diogenes to Papnuthis and Dorotheus via HGV-meta
Letter from Diogenes to his assistants Papnuthis and Dorotheos about linen and wages. A letter from Diogenes to his assistants Papnuthis and Dorotheos ordering them to send linen owed to the offices of the catholicus and the magistrate to the city at once, because a decadarch is pressing him, and to have villagers pay the wages of the messenger Kopreas. The back carries an account of payments in solidi to a landowner and an official. It comes from Oxyrhynchus, around AD 376. machine translation
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- Letter from Diogenes to Papnuthis and Dorotheus HGV-meta Oxyrhynchosca. 376 (?)
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[r,FrA]
Διογένης Παπνουτίῳ καὶ Δωροθέῳ
βοηθοῖς χαίρειν.
αὐτῆς ὥρας δεξάμενός
μου τὰ γράμματα τὸ σιππίον
τῆς καθολικότητος
καὶ τῆς μαγιστρότητος
ἀπόστειλον ἐπὶ τὴν
πόλιν ἐν τῇ σήμερον·
πάνυ γὰρ ἐνοχλοῦμαι
ὑπὸ Σερήνου τοῦ δεκαδάρχου.
καὶ ποίησον τοὺς
ἀπὸ τῆς κώμης
πληρῶσαι Κοπρέαν
τὸν σύμμαχον εἰς
τὸν μισθὸν αὐτοῦ
[… ? lines lost …]
[r,FrB]
καὶ μὴ ἐπιτρέψῃ
τὸν κύριον τῆς ὀνάδος
κρατῆσαι αὐτόν ἐστʼ ἂν ἐγὼ
ἀκούσω τοῦ πράγματος.
ἔρρωσθε
[v]
[… 7 lines lost …]
τῷ γεούχῳ διὰ Κοπρέως
συμμάχου νομισμάτια ι,
τῷ γεούχῳ ὑπὲρ λόγου Εὐλογίου
νομισμάτια δ,
κομενταρησίῳ νομισμάτια γ,
τῷ γεούχῳ διὰ Θεογνώστου
νομισμάτιον α,
[… 6 lines lost …]Translations (1)
[recto, fragment A]
Diogenes to Papnuthis and Dorotheos, assistants, greetings.
The very hour you receive my letter, send the linen (?) of the office of the catholicus and of the magistrate to the city today; for I am being greatly troubled by Serenos the decadarch.
And make those from the village pay Kopreas the messenger his wages […]
[…]
[recto, fragment B]
and let him not allow the owner of the she-ass to detain him until I have heard about the matter.
Farewell.
[verso]
[…]
To the landowner, through Kopreas the messenger, 10 solidi;
to the landowner on account of Eulogios, 4 solidi;
to the commentariensis, 3 solidi;
to the landowner through Theognostos, 1 solidus;
[…]
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Oxyrhynchus
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 22498 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;48;3416 tier-1
- HGV-Text 22498 tier-1
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