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p.oxy.59.3999 IVOxyrhynchos

Aphus to Heraclammon via HGV-meta

Letter from Aphous to his brother Heraklammon about a debt of 30 talents. A Christian private letter from Aphous to his brother Heraklammon about efforts to recover 30 talents paid as salary to a certain Didymos, brother of Dioskoros. Aphous got Didymos to sign a written bond but could not collect, since the family is destitute, and urges Heraklammon to come himself. Written at Oxyrhynchus in the 4th century AD. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] Ἀφοῦς τῷ κυρίῳ μου ἀδελφῷ Ἡρακλάμμωνι πλεῖστα χαῖρε. πρὸ μὲν πάντων εὔχομαί σε ὑγιαίνειν καὶ ὁλοκληρεῖν παρὰ τῷ κυρίῳ θεῷ. γινώσκειν σε θέλω, κύριέ μου, ὅτι πόσα ἐποίησα μετὰ Διοσκόρου περὶ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ αὐτοῦ Διδύμου καὶ λέγει μοι ὅτι, παρέδωκα αὐτὸν Ἡρακλάμμωνα. νῦν οὖν οὐκ οἶδα ποῦ ἐστιν. καθʼ ἑκάστην ἡμέραν ἀηδίαν ποιῶ μετʼ αὐτοῦ ἕνεκεν τούτου. καὶ νῦν οὖν εὗρον αὐτὸν τὸν Δίδυμον Φαρμοῦθι μηνὶ κγ κ[…]τε[…]ε…δ[…]ω[…] λησεωσε…[…]…[…]…[…] καὶ ὑπαρ…[…] διότι οὐδε…[…]χα καὶ πεινῶσι… […]οὐδεὶς ἔλαβεν ἐπʼ ἐγγύην[…]ν Δίδυμον ποιῆσαι […]… χειρόγραφον τῶν τριάκοντα ταλάντων ἃ ἔδωκες σαλάριον. μόγις τοῦτο ἴσχυκα αὐτῷ ποιῆσαι. νυνὶ δέ, ἐὰν σὺ αὐτὸς δύνῃ εἰσελθεῖν, τάχα δύνασαι αὐτὸν πρᾶξαι. ἐγὼ γὰρ οὐδὲν αὐτῷ ἴσχυσα ποιῆσαι, διότι οὐδὲ τὸ ψωμίον ἔχουσιν οὐδὲ οὐδεὶς ἔλαβε αὐτοὺς ἐπʼ ἐγγύην ἀσπάζομαι πολλὰ τὴν σύμβιον σου καὶ τὰ τέκνα σου κατʼ ὄνομα. ἐρρῶσθαι ὑμᾶς εὔχομαι πολλοῖς χρόνοις. Φαρμοῦθι κδ. [v] Ἡρακλάμμωνι παρὰ Ἀφοῦτος ἀδελφοῦ.

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] Aphous to my lord brother Heraklammon, very many greetings. Before all else I pray that you are in health and well in every way before the Lord God. I want you to know, my lord, how much I did with Dioskoros about his brother Didymos, and he tells me, "I handed him over to Heraklammon." So now I do not know where he is. Every day I have unpleasantness with him because of this. And now I found Didymos himself on the 23rd of the month Pharmouthi […] and […] because no […] and they are hungry (?) […] no one took […] on surety […] Didymos to make […] a written bond for the 30 talents which you gave as salary. With difficulty I managed to get this done with him. But now, if you yourself can come in, perhaps you can exact payment from him. For I was able to do nothing with him, because they do not even have a morsel of bread, nor did anyone take them on surety. I greet warmly your wife and your children by name. I pray for your health for many years. Pharmouthi 24. [verso] To Heraklammon from Aphous, his brother.

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Found at Oxyrhynchus

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