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p.oxy.59.4001 IVOxyrhynchos

Eudaemon to his Mother, Grandmothers, and Cyra via HGV-meta

Letter from Eudaimon to his mother, grandmothers and Kyra about medical supplies. A private letter from Eudaimon, apparently a physician, to his mother, grandmothers and Kyra, expressing relief at his sister Kyra's recovery and discussing shipments of clothes, books and supplies. He asks for a bronze tablet, a cupping-heater, cupping vessels and eye-salves for his medical work. It comes from Oxyrhynchus in the 4th century AD. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r,ctr] κυρίαις μου μητρὶ καὶ μάμμαις ὁμοῦ καὶ Κύρᾳ, Εὐδαίμων χαίρειν. ἔσπευσα καὶ νῦν ὑμᾶς προσειπεῖν εὐκαιρίαν εὑρών, εὐχόμενος τῇ θείᾳ προνοίᾳ ὅπως εὐθυμοῦσαι καὶ ὑγιαίνουσαι ἀπολάβητε τὰ παρʼ ἐμοῦ γράμματα. πάνυ γὰρ ἡμᾶς Ἡρακλάμμων ἐλθὼν ἐτάραξεν, ὅτι φησίν, ἐνόσησεν Κύρα ἡ ἀδελφὴ ἡμῶν, ἀλλʼ εὐχαριστοῦμεν τῇ θείᾳ προνοίᾳ τῇ πανταχοῦ ἡμῖν καὶ εἰς πάντα βοηθούσῃ, ὅτι καὶ αὐτὴ ὑγίανεν. γνώτω δὲ ὅτι τὰ λινούδια ἐτμήθη τῆς ἀδελφῆς ἡμῶν Κυρίλλης καὶ ἐὰν εὕρω γνήσιον ἐρχόμενον ἀποστέλλω αὐτὰ καὶ τὸν πορφυροῦν καράκαλλον καὶ τὰ ὑποδήματα. ἐσχήκαμεν δὲ τὰ σκεύη παρὰ Ἑλένης τῆς πλουμαρίας καὶ μόνα δ βιβλία εὗρον ἐν τῇ δισακκίᾳ, ὑμεῖς δὲ ἐγράψατε ὅτι, ε ἀπεστείλαμεν. ἔσχαμεν δὲ καὶ τὰ ἄλλα πάντα χωρὶς μόνης τῆς ὑδρίας τοῦ ὀξυγγίου. ὅθεν σπουδασάτω ὁ ἀδελφὸς ἡμῶν Θεόδωρος ζητῆσαι ηπο…τον να…… καὶ γνῶναι περὶ αὐτοῦ […]...... ὑδρίαν, παρέσχεν ἀντὶ τοῦ ὀξυγγίου κολλουρίων ὑδρίαν. σπούδασον δὲ τὸ χαλκοῦν δελτάριόν μοι ἀποστεῖλαι, ἵνα ἄλλα ἄρμενα ποιήσω, μὴ τὰ αὐτά, καὶ τὸν πυριατῆρα ὁμοίως καὶ τὰς σικύας, ἵνα ποιήσω …τάδιον. [r,ms] ἀπόστειλον δὲ καὶ κολλουρίων λίτρας τρεῖς μεμιγμένων ἀπὸ πάντων ……[…]…… στατικὰ καὶ ………οι…[…]……[…]…αλλα…… λάβω ἕτερα καλὰ α…α……[…] [v] ἀπόδος εἰς τὸ ἰατρεῖον παρὰ Εὐδαίμονος.

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
To my ladies, my mother and grandmothers, and also to Kyra, Eudaimon, greetings. I hastened now too to address you, having found an opportunity, praying to divine providence that you may receive my letter in good spirits and good health. For Heraklammon greatly troubled us when he came, because he says our sister Kyra fell ill; but we give thanks to divine providence, which everywhere and in all things helps us, that she too has recovered. Let her know that the linens of our sister Kyrilla have been cut, and if I find a trustworthy person coming, I am sending them, and the purple hooded cloak and the shoes. We have received the things from Helene the embroideress, and I found only 4 books in the double bag, but you wrote 'we sent 5'. We have also received everything else except only the jar of grease. So let our brother Theodoros make an effort to look for […] and find out about it […] jar; he supplied a jar of eye-salves instead of the grease. Make an effort to send me the bronze tablet, so that I may make other instruments, not the same ones, and the cupping-heater likewise, and the cupping vessels, so that I may make […]. [margin] Send also 3 pounds of eye-salves mixed from all […] astringents (?) and […] I may get other good […] [verso] Deliver to the surgery, from Eudaimon.

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Found at Oxyrhynchus

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