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Letter from Aphrodisios to Sempronios about a child and household matters. A private letter from Aphrodisios to Sempronios, dating to the 1st or 2nd century AD. It concerns a child, a woman who failed to come to the house and showed signs of a break, rent due up to Phamenoth, and a request to pay a small sum of money, ending with greetings. machine translation
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Transcription
Ἀφροδείσιος Σεμπρωνίῳ τῷ τιμιωτάτῳ πλεῖστα χαίρειν. ἔγραψάς μοι περὶ τοῦ παιδίου ὡς μὴ εἰδὼς ὅτι …[…]…μα ἐστὶν καὶ μετὰ τὸ ἀσφαλίσασθαι τὴν …[…]
εἰληφέναι αὐτὴν ……[…]
μεθʼ ἃ αὐτὸ βαστάξαι ἀπʼ αὐτῆς[…]
σοι ἔκτοτε ὅτι ἂν θέλῃς ἀ…[…]
ἡμ…[…]…[…]
τον ἐπερη…α……[…]μοιος οκ…[…]
πρὸς καιρὸν οὐδένα μοναχόν· σὺ μὲν καλῶς ἐποίησας μνημονεύων αὐτῶν, εἶδας δὲ ὅτι
οὐδὲ ἐγὼ μεμπτός εἰμι, δέδωκα δὲ καὶ …[…]
μ[…]του καὶ […]αι… οὐκ ἐξῆλθε, ἐὰν δὲ ἐξέλθῃ
δύνομαι ἐν τάχει πρὸς σὲ γενέσθαι. καλῶς οὖν ποιήσεις οὗ ἔπρασσες καὶ προσεῖχες τοῖς ἡμετέροις …[…]
…υν τὸ αὐτὸ πράσσειν … τοῦ φόρου ὅτι ἕως Φαμενὼθ[…]
σεσιον φόρον, μάθε δὲ τ…[…]… ἐργολαβήσας
αὐτὴν καὶ δήλωσόν μοι ἐν τάχει· ἀναγκαίως ἐκομισάμην παρὰ γατρακνημιας κ. διὰ τί δὲ
κατὰ τὸ ἔθος ἐλθοῦσα οὐκ ἦλθε εἰς οἶκον, ἀλλὰ
ἔδειξε ἀρχὴν διασχισμοῦ; καλῶς οὖν ποιήσεις,
ἐὰν εὕρῃς ἀφορμὴν διαγραψάμενος τὸ κερμάτιον ἵνα μήτε ἐάν τίς σοι ἐνέγκῃ τὸ σημην.
ει…κε…[…]…[…]ρσικωδω[…] εἰς αὐτά. ἀσπάζομαι τὴν
…λαια…[…]λεκμ…[…]…κ[…]…τεινον καὶ τὴν σύμβιον αὐτοῦ απαρ…[…] ὑμᾶς ἀσπάζεται πάντας
κατʼ ὄνομα καὶ ἡμεῖς σοι πάντες ἀσπαζόμεθα ὑμᾶς. ἐρρῶσθαι ὑμᾶς εὔχομαι.Translations (1)
Aphrodisios to the most honoured Sempronios, very many greetings. You wrote to me about the child as if not knowing that […] is […], and after securing the […]
that she has received […]
after which to carry it away from her […]
to you from then on whatever you wish […]
[…]
[…]
for no occasion alone(?). You did well in remembering them, and you saw that
neither am I to blame; and I have also given […]
[…] and […] did not go out, but if it goes out
I can quickly come to you. So please do as you were doing and attend to our […]
[…] to do the same […] of the rent, that until Phamenoth […]
[…] rent, and find out […] having contracted for
it, and let me know quickly. Of necessity I received from […] 20(?). And why
did she, having come according to custom, not come into the house, but
showed the beginning of a split? So please,
if you find an opportunity, pay the small change, so that neither, if anyone brings you the sealed(?) […]
[…] to them. I greet the
[…] and […] and his wife […] greets you all
by name, and all of us greet you. I pray for your health.
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