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p.oxy.56.3865 spätes VOxyrhynchos

Samuel to Martyrius via HGV-meta

Letter from Samuel to Martyrios about debt collection and a mill. A private letter from Samuel to his 'brother' Martyrios, written at Oxyrhynchus in the late 5th century AD. Samuel reports successful collection of debts in Senokomis, urges Martyrios to pursue collections at Pakerke before the Nile flood recedes, and tells of leasing Orthonios' mill, ejecting a certain Horos, and paying a tax on the mill. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r,ctr] χμγ κυρίῳ μου τιμιωτάτῳ ἀδελφῷ Μαρτυρίῳ Σαμουὴλ χαίρειν. πρὸ μὲν πάντων εὔχομαι τῷ πανελεήμονι θεῷ περὶ τῆς σῆς ὑγίειας. γνῶναί σε βούλομαι ὅτι ἐν τῇ χάριτι τοῦ θεοῦ ἐδυνήθημεν πάνυ ἔργον ποιῆσαι ἐν Σενοκώμει καὶ πολλοὶ ἐξ αὐτῶν δεδώκασιν τὸ κεφάλαιον αὐτῶν. μόνον τὸν ἐπετινὸν τόκον παρεχωρήσαμεν αὐτοῖς καὶ ἃ χρεωστοῦσιν εἰς τὸν ἀνὰ χεῖρα χρόνον ἀπῃτήσαμεν αὐτοὺς ἕως ἑνὸς δεσμιδίου. μηδὲν οὖν μεριμνᾷς περὶ ἡμῶν. σεαυτῷ τὸ ἔργον ποίει. ἀκούω γὰρ παρὰ τοῦ κομίζοντός σου τὸ γράμμα ὅτι ἀκμὴν εἰς τοὺς ε…ους τῆς Ἀκούτου σχολάζεις καὶ ἐπʼ οὐδενὶ ὡμίλησεν ἐν Πακέρκη εἰς ἀπαίτησιν. εἰ οὐκ οἶδας ὅτι ἐὰν ἀποβῇ τὸ νηρὸν καὶ εὑρεθῶσιν [r,md] ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι πολλοῖς χρόνοις. [v] ἔργον ποιῆσαι ἐν ἀγροῖς, οὐδεὶς προσποιεῖταί σοι τὸ λοιπόν, ὃ ποιεῖς ποίησον. σὺν θεῷ γὰρ ἐὰν καθαρίσωμεν ἡμῶν τὰ χωρία, μετὰ τρεῖς ἡμέρας ἀνέρχομαι εἰς τὴν πόλιν ἅμα Φαυστινιανῷ καὶ ποιῶ τὸν αὐτὸν Φαυστινιανὸν καταλαβεῖν σε εἰς Πακέρκη. γνῶναί σε βούλομαι περὶ τοῦ μυλαίου Ὀρθωνίου ὅτι ἐποίησα τὴν γαμετὴν αὐτοῦ μισθώσασθαι εἰς αὐτὸ μετὰ πάσης εὐχαριστίας, καὶ πόσα ἐποιήσαμεν μετὰ τοῦ σαλοῦ ἐκείνου Ὥρου ἕως ἂν δυνηθῶμεν αὐτὸν ἐκβαλεῖν ἐκ τῶν ἐκεῖ, λέγων ὅτι καὶ ὁ πατήρ μου ἔχει τὸ ἥμισυ αὐτοῦ. καὶ ὁ πάγαρχος τῆς κώμης ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ ἀπέστειλεν ἕνα ἀπαιτητὴν ὥστε ἀπαιτῆσαι το…ουλοτ… καὶ ἀπῃτήθην ὑπὲρ τοῦ αὐτοῦ μυλαίου δηναρίων μυριάδας Βσν καὶ ἔλαβον τὴν ἀποχὴν ε[…]……μων παρα […]… μειζ …… […]…κ…ω…ο χάρις υ…

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto, centre] 643 (Christian symbol) To my lord, most honoured brother Martyrios, Samuel, greetings. Before all else I pray to the all-merciful God for your health. I want you to know that by the grace of God we were able to do a great deal of work in Senokomis, and many of them have paid their principal. Only the interest for the year (?) did we remit to them, and what they owe for the current period we demanded from them down to a single bundle. So do not worry at all about us. Do the work yourself. For I hear from the man bringing your letter that you are still busy with the [...] of Akoutos and that he has had no dealings in Pakerke about the collection. Do you not know that if the water recedes and they are found [recto, margin] I pray for your health for many years. [verso] to do work in the fields, no one will pay attention to you any more? What you are doing, do it. For, God willing, if we clear our lands, after three days I am going up to the city together with Faustinianos, and I will have the same Faustinianos meet you at Pakerke. I want you to know about Orthonios' mill that I made his wife lease it with all goodwill, and how much we went through with that fool Horos until we could throw him out of the property there, saying that my father also owns half of it. And the pagarch of the village at the same time sent a collector to collect [...], and I was made to pay for the same mill 2,250 myriads of denarii, and I received the receipt [...] [...] [...] grace [...]

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