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p.oxy.58.3932 VIOxyrhynchos
Private Letter: Paul to Mary via HGV-meta
Letter from Paulos the exceptor to his mother Maria. A private letter from Paulos, a shorthand clerk (exceptor) travelling with a high official, to his "mother" Maria at Oxyrhynchus. He acknowledges her letter, the first to reach him, brought by the official courier Anelios, announces his imminent arrival in the Oxyrhynchite nome with the archon, and explains he had not received her earlier letters. machine translation
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TM 36210.
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- Private Letter: Paul to Mary HGV-meta OxyrhynchosVI
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[r]
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☧ ἐδεξάμην τὰ γράμματα τῆς σῆς μητρικῆς εὐνοίας διὰ τοῦ θαυμασιωτάτου
Ἀνηλίου τοῦ σιγγουλαρίου· θεὸς οἶδεν ταῦτα πρῶτα τυγχάνοντα· καὶ πάνυ ἐχάρην
γνοὺς ἐξ αὐτῶν ὑγιαίνειν ὑμᾶς. καὶ σὺν θεῷ ἐν ταύταις ἐπικαταλαμβάνομεν τὴν
Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν μετὰ τοῦ κυρίου μου τοῦ μεγαλοπρεπεστάτου καὶ εὐδοκιμωτάτου
ἄρχοντος, καὶ ἐλπίζω, ἡμῶν καταλαμβανόντων τὰ ἐκεῖσε, ὡς ὅτιπερ
περὶ ἑκάστου τύπος δοθήσεται. οὐκ ὀφείλετε δὲ μέμψασθαί με ὡς ὅτιπερ πρῶτον
καὶ δεύτερον καὶ τρίτον ἐγράψατέ μοι καὶ τῶν ἀμοιβαίων οὐκ ἐτύχατε. θεὸς γὰρ
οἶδεν ὁ παντοκράτωρ, ἐξ ὅτου ἐξῆλθον τῆς Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν εἰ μὴ ταύτην καὶ
μόνην τὴν ἐπιστολὴν οὐκ ἐδεξάμην ὑμῶν. ἔγνων δὲ ὡς ὅτιπερ
Καλήμερος οὐ κατέχεται, καὶ παρὰ τοῦ ἐμοῦ συμμάχου καὶ παρὰ ἄλλων πολλῶν.
πολλὰ ὑμᾶς προσαγορεύω δὲ καὶ ὁ γλυκύτατος κοινὸς
υἱὸς Θέων καὶ …νις. καὶ χάρις τῷ κρείττονι τῷ παρασκευάσαντι ὑμᾶς ταύτην
τὴν ἐπιστολὴν πέμψαι τὴν διὰ Ἀνηλίου τοῦ σιγγουλαρίου.
[v]
☧ ἐπίδος τῇ κυρίᾳ μου σεμνοπρεπεστάτῃ καὶ εὐγενεστάτῃ μητρὶ Μαρίᾳ
παρὰ Παύλου ἐξκέπτορος.Translations (1)
[recto]
[…]
☧ I received the letter of your motherly goodwill through the most admirable Anelios the singularius; God knows this is the first to reach me; and I was very glad to learn from it that you are well. And with God's help, in these days we are arriving at the Oxyrhynchite (nome) with my lord the most magnificent and most esteemed archon, and I hope that, when we reach those parts, an instruction will be given concerning each matter. You should not blame me on the grounds that you wrote to me a first, a second and a third time and did not receive replies. For God the Almighty knows that since I left the Oxyrhynchite (nome) I have received no letter from you except this one alone. I learned that Kalemeros is not being detained, both from my symmachos and from many others. I greet you warmly, and so does our most sweet common son Theon and […]nis. And thanks be to the Almighty who prepared you to send this letter, the one through Anelios the singularius.
[verso]
☧ Deliver to my lady, most venerable and most noble mother Maria, from Paulos, exceptor.
Connections
Found at
Oxyrhynchus
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 36210 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;58;3932 tier-1
- HGV-Text 36210 tier-1
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