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Letter of Pausanias via HGV-meta

Letter from Pausanias to his father Julius Alexander about goods sent. A private letter from Pausanias to his father Julius Alexander, listing food and goods sent by various carriers (eggs, mustard, radish oil, honey, cakes, bread) and reporting on errands concerning a cloak held by a mender and grain from Ammonios' mother. He also asks for leather bags, a mantle and shoes; written at Oxyrhynchus in the 3rd century AD. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[1] Παυσανίας Ἰουλίῳ Ἀλεξάνδρωι τῶι πατρὶ χαίρειν. πρὸ μὲν πάντων εὔχομαί σε ὑγιαίνειν καὶ τὸ προσκύνημά σου ποιῶ παρὰ τοῖς ἐπιχωρίοις θεοῖς. κόμισαι παρὰ Σύρου κλουίον ᾠῶν π καὶ βαυκάλιον ὅπου τριχοίνικον σινάπεως καὶ ἡμίχουν ἐλαίου ῥαφανίνου καὶ βαυκάλιον ὅπου ἡμίχουν μέλιτος καὶ τὸ ξιφίδιν. κόμισαι παρὰ Ἀγαθημέρου μελικηρίδα καὶ κύθραν πλακούντων ι καὶ μελίτινα στεφάνια γ· ταῦτα δοῖς τῇ ἀδελφῇ μου καὶ ἀσπάζου αὐτὴν λίαν. κόμισαι παρὰ τοῦ κομίζοντός σοι τὸ ἐπιστόλιον κλουίον ἔχον μ καὶ σφυρίδιον Κανωπικὸν ὅπου ζεύγη ἄρτων δ καὶ ϛ ζεύγη σκωρσελείνας. ὁ ἠπητὴς λέγει ὅτι οὐ δίδω οὔτε τὸν χαλκὸν οὔτε τὸ φαινόλιν ἄτερ Ἰούστου, λέγει γὰρ ὅτι οὔπω λελύτρωται τὸ φαινόλιν οὐδὲ Φιλόξενον ὅλʼ ἐξ ὅλων οὐχ εὗρον. ἀπῆλθον πρὸς τὴν μητέρα Ἀμμωνίου καὶ λέγει ὅτι οὐκ ἔχω ἄρτι σῖτον οὐδὲ τὰ βιβλίδια ἀπήρτισται ἕως ἄρτι. ἔνεγκόν μοι δύο σκυτάρια ἀνάβολον καὶ ταλάριον ἱππικινακοι πενταετίας καὶ ὑπόδημα. ἄρτι μοι πέμψον σαρκοφανὴν ἔχοντα μα- [2] […]τως ἡμᾶς […] ἐμὲ καὶ τὴν […]ερα μου γρα[…]μειν καὶ […]το δεῖ ποιῆσαι[…]ς τὸ γὰρ ει […]… ὅτι πειρα[…]μου ἐλθεῖν […]αν ἔχει ἐν εγ[…] παρὰ σοὶ λη[…] μεστὸν πεν[…]δράχμου καὶ βίκους[…]…ερεου μύρου […]ω στατῆρα τὸν […]ον γὰρ αὐτοῦ η […]ἔλαβον καὶ ἀφη[…]… ἀνάλωμα καὶ […]τι ευπευκοι […] δʼ ὕστερα πα[…] ἐμῷ ὀνόματι […]ἀσπάζεταί σε ἡ μήτηρ μου[…]νημά μου […] ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι πολλοῖς χρόνοις.[…]

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[1] Pausanias to Julius Alexander his father, greetings. Before all else I pray for your health and I make obeisance for you before the local gods. Receive from Syros a basket of 80 eggs and a jar containing 3 choinikes of mustard and half a chous of radish oil, and a jar containing half a chous of honey, and the small sword. Receive from Agathemeros a honeycomb and a pot of 10 cakes and 3 honey garlands; give these to my sister and greet her warmly. Receive from the man bringing you the letter a basket holding 40 and a Canopic basket containing 4 pairs of loaves and 6 pairs of scorselina (?). The mender says, "I am not giving either the money or the cloak without Justus"; for he says that the cloak has not yet been redeemed; and Philoxenos I did not find at all. I went to the mother of Ammonios and she says, "I have no grain just now, nor have the petitions been completed up to now." Bring me two leather bags, a mantle and a riding (?) basket of five years and a shoe. Send me now a flesh-coloured ... having ... [2] […] us […] me and the […] my [mother (?)] […] and […] must do […] for the […] that […] my […] to come […] has in […] with you […] full […] of 4 drachmas and jars […] of ointment […] stater the […] for his […] I received and […] expense and […] but later […] in my name […] My mother greets you […] my […] I pray for your health for many years. […]

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