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Aelius Theon to Herminus via HGV-meta

Letter from Aelius Theon to Herminos about sweets for his daughter. A private letter from Aelius Theon, apparently in Alexandria, to Herminos, apologizing that he has not yet sent sweets to Herminos' daughter Dionysia because the new produce has not arrived, and reporting daily prayers for the family before Sarapis. A postscript mentions his man Diogas travelling upriver and complains of a merchant, Sarapiodoros, opposing him. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] Αἴλιος Θέων Ἑρμίνωι τῶι ἀδελφῶι χαίρειν. καὶ πρὸ ἡμερῶν ἔγραψά σοι ἀσπαζόμενός σε καὶ τὴν κυρίαν μου θυγατέρα σου Διονυσίαν καὶ τὴν μητέρα αὐτῆς. καὶ νῦν τὸ αὐτὸ ποιῶ καὶ παρακαλῶ συγγνῶναί μοι εἰ μήπω τῆι αὐτῆι κυρίαι ἡμῶν πέπομφα τραγημάτια. οὔπω γὰρ τὰ νέα κατέπλευσεν. ὅταν δὲ κατακομισθῆι, πέμψω αὐτῆι ἄξια αὐτῆς καὶ εἴ τι ἄλλο ἐὰν δύνωμαι. ἑκάστης μέντοι ἡμέρας τὸ προσκύνημα αὐτῆς ποιῶ παρὰ τῶι θεῶι τω… θε[…]τωι κυρίωι Σαράπιδι καὶ σοῦ καὶ τῆς μητρὸς αὐτῆς. ἀσπάζου οὖν αὐτὴν καὶ τὴν μητέρα αὐτῆς, μεθʼ ὧν ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι εἰς μακροὺς χρόνους καὶ ὅλωι σου τῶι οἴκωι. ἔρρωσο. Παχὼν κβ. Διογᾶς ὁ ἐμὸς ἀνέπλευσεν, ἐπὶ ποίαι αἱρέσει μεταδώσει σοι καὶ ἡ ἀδελφή μου καὶ Διονύσιος ὁ νομογράφος καὶ Πτολεμαῖος ὁ μελλογυμνασίαρχος, οἷς συλλήψῃ, ἐάν γε μὴ ὦ πεπλανημένος. Σαραπιόδωρος ὁ φίλος ὁ ἔμπορος πολλάκις με λυπήσας καὶ νῦν ἐν τοῖς περὶ Διογᾶτος ἀντιδικεῖ μοι. τοῦτο ὑμᾶς μαρτύρομαι μόνον. οὐ γὰρ ὑπομένω αὐτὸν μιμήσασθαι. [v] ἀπὸ Αἰλίου Θέωνος Ἑρμίνωι φίλωι

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EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] Aelius Theon to Herminos his brother, greetings. Some days ago too I wrote to you, greeting you and my lady your daughter Dionysia and her mother. And now I do the same, and I beg you to forgive me if I have not yet sent sweetmeats to our same lady. For the new produce has not yet sailed down. But when it has been brought down, I shall send her things worthy of her, and anything else if I can. Every day, however, I make the act of worship for her before the god […] the lord Sarapis, and for you and her mother. Greet her, then, and her mother, with whom I pray that you are well for many years, and your whole household. Farewell. Pachon 22. My Diogas has sailed up; he will inform you on what terms, as will my sister and Dionysios the legal scribe and Ptolemaios the gymnasiarch-designate, whom you will assist, unless I am mistaken. Sarapiodoros the friend, the merchant, who has often grieved me, is now also opposing me in the matter of Diogas. This alone I call you to witness. For I will not bring myself to imitate him. [verso] From Aelius Theon to Herminos his friend.

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