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p.oxy.6.938 spätes III - IVOxyrhynchos
Letter of Demetrius via HGV-meta
The same text in other collections
Linked by Trismegistos ID
TM 31327.
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- p.oxy.1.161 DDbDP-text Oxyrhynchosspätes III - IV
- Letter of Demetrius HGV-meta Oxyrhynchosspätes III - IV
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
Δημήτριος Ἡρακλείδῃ πατρὶ χαίρειν.
οὐκ ἀκόλουθον πρᾶγμα ἐποίησας ἐνεδρεύσας τὰς τροφὰς τῶν κτηνῶν
τῆς Σεναώ, ἔκπαλαι ἐπισταλεὶς δώδεκα σαργάνας χόρτου ἐκεῖ ἀποστεῖλαι
καὶ μὴ πέμψας, ὡς ἐκ τούτου κινδυνεύειν τὰ κτήνη διαφθαρῆναι. τῶν
οὖν κτηνῶν κακῶς ἐχόντων καὶ τῆς γῆς διὰ τοῦτο μὴ ποτιζομένης ἠπείχθην καὶ νῦν σοι γράψαι ὅπως αὐτῆς ὥρας γομωθῆναι ἐπιτηδείως τὰς σαργάνας
ποιήσας ἀποστείλῃς. τῇ γὰρ ἀσχολίᾳ μου ἔδοξας ἐπεγγελᾶν.
ἐρρῶσθαί σε πολλοῖς χρόνοις
εὔχομαι.Translations (1)
Demetrios to Herakleides his father, greetings. It was an unfitting act of yours to intercept the fodder for the oxen at Senao and not to dispatch it, although you had long ago been instructed to send twelve baskets of hay thither, with the result that the oxen are in danger of wasting away. Since the oxen are thus in a sorry state, and the land in consequence is not being irrigated, I hasten to write to you now once more and beg you instantly to get the baskets properly laden and send them off; for you seem to be mocking my industry. I pray for your long health.
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Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 31327 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;6;938 tier-1
- HGV-Text 31327 tier-1
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