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p.oxy.59.4002 IV - VOxyrhynchos
Diogenes an Eumathius via HGV-meta
Letter from Diogenes the advocate to Eumathios with requests for supplies and news. A private letter from Diogenes, an advocate (scholastikos) living away from home, to Eumathios at Oxyrhynchus. He complains of rarely receiving letters, asks for household goods and foodstuffs to be sent with the monthly provisions boat, and asks for news of people, of hay, irrigation works and rent collection. machine translation
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- Diogenes an Eumathius HGV-meta OxyrhynchosIV - V
Inscriptions (1)
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· Greek
Transcription
[r]
τῷ δεσπότῃ μου Εὐμαθίῳ
Διογένης.
πολλὰς ἀποστέλλων ἐπιστολὰς διὰ πολλοῦ μόλις τὰ παρὰ σοῦ
πεμπόμενα γράμματα κομίζομαι, ἃ σπανίως ἀποστέλλεις.
ἀπέστειλα καὶ νῦν καὶ διὰ συμμάχου διαφέροντος Μέλανι τῷ
σπεκουλάτορι ἄλλας τρεῖς ἐπιστολάς. ἵνʼ οὖν ταύτας ὑποδέξῃ,
γράφω. τὰς ὑδρίας καὶ χύτρας καὶ βαυκάλεις μοι ἀπόστειλον
διὰ τοῦ φέροντος τὰ ἐπιμηνίδια πλοίου. περὶ Φιλαδέλφου
οὐδέν μοι ἔγραψας. πῶς διάγει; ποίησον Σαλιοῦν τὸν
ἀπὸ Τόκα δοῦναι σοι τὸ φαινόλιον Ἀθανασίου τοῦ βοηθοῦ, ἵνα
ἀποστείλῃς ἡμῖν ἐνταῦθα. καὶ κεράμιον τυρῶν
ἀποσταλήτω ἡμῖν. ἐλαίας ἀπόστειλον καὶ φακῆν
λελεπισμένην ὀλίγην καὶ σιτάριον ὀλίγον λελεπισμένον,
τοσοῦτον ὅσον καὶ πέρυσι ἀπεστάλη. τὰς κεραίας τοῦ
κραβάκτου μοι ἀπόστειλον. πολλάκις σοι ἔγραψα ἵνα μοι δηλώσῃς
περὶ Θεοδώρου, εἰ ἐπαύσατο ἀλγῶν τὸν ὀδόντα. εἰ ἐλάβετε τὸν χόρτον
τῆς Ἀδέου τὸν Κορνηλίου, δήλωσόν μοι, καὶ περὶ τοῦ λάκκου καὶ περὶ
θερινῶν ἔργων ἐν ταῖς μηχαναῖς καὶ εἰ οἱ φόροι συνεπληρώθησαν.
πῶς διάγει ἡ Διονυσία; ἐρρῶσθαί σε πολλοῖς
χρόνοις εὔχομαι,
κύριέ μου.
[v]
τῶι δεσπότῃ μου ἐν Ὀξυρύγχῳ Εὐμαθίωι Διογένης σχολαστικόςTranslations (1)
[recto]
To my master Eumathios,
Diogenes.
Though I send many letters, after a long time I scarcely receive the letters sent by you, which you send rarely. I have sent now too, also through an allied soldier (?) belonging to Melas the speculator, three other letters. So I am writing so that you may receive them. Send me the water jars and cooking pots and flasks by the boat that carries the monthly provisions. You wrote me nothing about Philadelphos. How is he? Make Salious from Toka give you the cloak of Athanasios the assistant, so that you may send it to us here. And let a jar of cheeses be sent to us. Send olives and a little husked lentil and a little husked wheat, as much as was sent last year too. Send me the horns (posts) of the couch. I have often written to you to let me know about Theodoros, whether he has stopped suffering from his tooth. Let me know whether you have received the hay of Adeou, that of Kornelios, and about the cistern and about the summer works on the water-wheels, and whether the rents have been paid in full. How is Dionysia? I pray for your health for many years, my lord.
[verso]
To my master Eumathios in Oxyrhynchus, Diogenes, advocate.
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Oxyrhynchus
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 33123 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;59;4002 tier-1
- HGV-Text 33123 tier-1
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