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Private Letter via APIS-papyrus

Letter from Claudius Terentianus to his father Tiberianus about purchases for his mother. A Latin private letter from Claudius Terentianus to Claudius Tiberianus, whom he calls his father, passing on his mother's request that Tiberianus buy certain goods for her, preferably at a lower price. It dates to the early 2nd century AD and was probably written at Alexandria. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Latin · Latin

Transcription

[r] Claudius Terentianus Claudio Tiberiano patri suo plurimam salutem salutat te mater mea et orat te si potes fieri ut emas illi […]…[…]…ercia vidit Germani libertam a…ente…alia lineo et concupivit illuc …balium vide si potes invenire minore pretio merca mater mea minore vult culcitas quas illi attuli non […] illei […]magne […]s…[…]…fac ergo si potes mercare et mihi tu rescribe se enim concupiscere illum dicebat se enim situlas et furca habere se et ut mittas illi di[…]…n… […]nes dico illi et ego nolim petere illas sed possum tibi epistulam scribere et mittet tibi si invenerit ergo merca minore pretio rogo ut satisfacias illi et illaec enim […]…[…] in meo a domu……[…] carum enim habemus secundum deum te et tu nos saluta qui nos amant vale [v] Κλαυδίῳ Τιβεριανῷ σπεκουλάτορι

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] Claudius Terentianus to Claudius Tiberianus his father, very many greetings. My mother greets you and asks you, if it can be done, to buy her […] she saw (?) the freedwoman of Germanus […] linen (?) and she desired that […] (?). See if you can find it at a lower price; buy it. My mother wants it at a lower price. The mattresses (?) which I brought her not […] greatly (?) […] So do, if you can, buy it and write back to me. For she said that she wanted it; for she said that she has buckets and a fork (?), and that you should send her […]. I tell her: 'I would not want to ask for them, but I can write you a letter, and he will send them to you if he finds them.' So buy at a lower price. I ask that you satisfy her, and those things too […] in my (?) from home […] For we hold you dear next to god, and you greet those who love us. Farewell. [verso] To Claudius Tiberianus, speculator.

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Found at Alexandria

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