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p.oxy.49.3507 Oxyrhynchos

Apollonius to Sarapodorus via HGV-meta

Letter from Apollonios to the exegetes Sarapodoros on civic and business matters. A private and business letter from Apollonios to Sarapodoros, an exegetes at Oxyrhynchus, about Andromachos' request concerning his gymnasiarchy, the low price of wine, goods held by contractors from Antinoopolis, rugs, and an appeal that must be lodged before a deadline under an edict. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r,ctr] χαῖρε, κύριέ μου ἄδελφε Σαραπόδωρε, Ἀπολλώνιός σε προσαγορεύω. ἐπιστολὴν Ἀνδρομάχου ἔπεμψά σοι ὅπως ἀναδῷς καὶ τὴν ἀντιγραφὴν ἐν τάχει ἡμῖν πέμψῃς. ἡ δὲ ἀξίωσις αὐτοῦ περὶ τοῦ τηρηθῆναι αὐτῷ το ψήφισμα τῆς ἀναδοχῆς τῆς γυμνασιαρχίας, καὶ εἰ μὲν οἷόν τε ἐστίν, ἃς ἐκ περισσοῦ ἡμέρας ἠναγκάσθη ποιῆσαι πέρυσι, παραδεχθῆναι αὐτῶ εἰς τὰςἐπετείους μὴ ὀκνήσῃς. εἰ δὲ μή γε, καὶ ἂν ἀπὸ τοῦ νῦν τηρηθῆναι τὸ ψήφισμα. τοῦτο γὰρ καὶ δικαιότατον. ὁ Ἀχιλλεὺς περὶ τοῦ οἴνου οὐδὲν οὔτε ἐνήργησεν οὔτε ἀπῄτησεν. ἐδόκει δὲ χαράσσεσθαι ἐπὶ τούτῳ. ἡ τιμὴ τοῦ οἴνου ἐνταῦθα πάνυ ἐν καθυφέσει ἐστιν. μέχρι γὰρ δραχμῶν Α καὶ ϡ τυγχάνει, ὥστε, εἰ δύνατόν σοί ἐστιν Ἀλέξανδρον τὸν Ἀκωρείτην ἀξιῶσαι ὅπως διὰ πλοίου αὐτοῦ …ήσῃ μοι ἐνεχθῆναι καὶ ἂν ὅσον ἐὰν εὕρῃς εἰς ἃ γράφεις, ποίησον. οἱ μέντοι Ἀντινοϊτικοὶ ἐκδοχεῖς ἐπετάξαντό μοι ὅτι, ἢ συνωνούμεθα τὰ σὰ τῆς αὐτῆς τιμῆς ἢ ἀποφέρομεν τῷ ἀδελφῷ σου αὐτά. τοὺς τάπητας ἐξέδωκα. ὁ γὰρ σημειογράφος οὐκ ἔδωκέν μοι τάπητα. ὑπέσχετο μέντοι δώσειν μοι δραχμὰς θ… καινοῦ. εἰδέναι μέντοι ὀφείλεις ὅτι προσελθεῖν σε δεῖ ἕνεκεν τῆς ἐκκλήτου πρὸ τῆς προθεσμίας κατὰ τὸ διάταγμα. ἔστιν τῆς οὐσιακῆς ἐπιτροπῆς ὀφφικιάλιος ἐνθάδε ζητῶν πρόστιμον ἐκκλήτων, [r,ms] ὃς καὶ ἡμῖν ἕνεκεν τῆς τότε πρὸς τὸν οὐσιακὸν περὶ χειρογραφ ταλάντων ϛ καὶ μέχρι νῦν πρὸς αὐτὸν οὐδέπω οὐδὲν ἐπράξαμεν, ἐὰν δέ τι καινότερον πραχθῇ, δηλωθήσεταί σοι. ἀσπάζεταί σε τὰ τεκνία ἡμῶν καὶ ἡ μήτηρ αὐτῶν καὶ οἱ ἡμῶν πάντες. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι, κύριέ μου. [v] Σαραποδώρωι ἐξηγητῇ παρὰ Ἀπολλωνίου.

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
Greetings, my lord brother Sarapodoros, I, Apollonios, address you. I have sent you a letter of Andromachos so that you may deliver it and send us the reply quickly. His request concerns the preservation for him of the decree of his assumption of the gymnasiarchy; and if it is possible, do not hesitate to have the days which he was compelled to perform in excess last year credited to him against the annual ones. If not, at least let the decree be preserved from now on. For this is most just. Achilleus has done nothing and demanded nothing concerning the wine. He seemed to be irritated about this. The price of wine here is very depressed, for it stands at as little as 1,900 drachmas, so that, if you can ask Alexander the Akoreite to [...] have it brought to me by his boat, do so, as much as you find, for the purposes you write of. However, the Antinoite contractors declared to me that either we buy your goods jointly at the same price or we take them back to your brother. I have handed over the rugs, for the shorthand writer did not give me a rug. He promised, however, to give me 9[...] drachmas for a new one. You ought to know, however, that you must appear in the matter of the appeal before the deadline according to the edict. There is here an official of the estate administration seeking the penalty for appeals, [margin] who also to us, on account of the matter then before the estate official concerning a note of hand for 6 talents, and up to now we have done nothing yet with him; if anything new is done, it will be made known to you. Our little children greet you, and their mother, and all our people. I pray for your health, my lord. [verso] To Sarapodoros, exegetes, from Apollonios.

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