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Letter from Artemis to her husband Theodoros, with a rebuke to Sarapion. A 4th-century Christian letter from Artemis to her soldier husband Theodoros, sending greetings and a mantle, followed by an angry reply to one Sarapion alias Isidoros, who had threatened her, accusing his daughters of immorality known to the church elders and defending her family's free birth. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] Ἄρτεμεις Θεοδώρῳ τῷ κυρίῳ μου συμβίῳ ἐν θεῷ χαίρειν. πρὸ μὲν πάντων εὔχομαι τῷ κυρίῳ θεῷ, ὅπως ὁλοκληροῦντά σε ἀπολάβομεν. ἔπεμψά σοι διὰ Ἄπωνος τοῦ συνστρατιώτου σου γράμματα καὶ μαφόρτιν. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι. ἀσπάζεταί σε τὰ παιδία σου καὶ Ἀλλοῦς πολλά σοι ἀπειλεῖ, ἐπεὶ γὰρ πολλάκις γράψας καὶ πάντας ἀσπασάμενος αὐτὴν μόνην οὐκ ἠσπάσου. ἀσπάζεταί σε Ἀλλοοῦς. Ἄρτεμις Σαραπίωνι τῷ καὶ Ἰσιδώρῳ. γράφει· ἐὰν ἦς στρατιώτης καὶ ἀπόνοιαν φορεῖς. ὁ ἡγεμὼν δὲ τὰς ἀπονοίας ταχὺ ταπεινοῖ. γράφεις δὲ ἡμῖν ὡς ἐχθαμβῶν ἡμᾶς, λέγων ὅτι ὁ ἡγεμὼν οὐ θέλει οἰκοφθόρους. εἰ δὲ θέλεις τὰ πορνεύματα τῶν θυγατέρων σου στέργειν, μὴ ἐμὲ ἐξέταζε, ἀλλὰ τοὺς πρεσβυτέρους τῆς ἐκκλησίας, πῶς ἐξεπήδησαν αἱ δύο λέγουσαι ὅτι ἄνδρες θέλομεν καὶ πῶς εὑρέθη ἡ Λούκρα παρὰ τὸν μοιχὸν αὐτῆς, ποιοῦσα ἑαυτὴν Γαδιτᾶναν, ἐξ ὧν φθονοῦσιν ὅτι Σουχάρῳ αὐτὰ προστεθείκαμεν. ἐὰν ἦν δὲ ὀνομάζειν περὶ γένους καὶ ταῦτα πάλιν φθάνομεν ἀποδεῖξαι, τίς εὐγενέστερός ἐστι. ἡμεῖς γὰρ οὐκ ἐγενόμεθα ἀπὸ δούλης γεννηθέντες. ταῦτα δέ σοι γράφω Θεοδώρῳ ὅτι πάντα ποίει διὰ τὸ ὑπάρχον, καὶ δεῖ γράμματα αὐτῶι δηλῶσαι ?. [v] ἀπόδος Θεοδώρῳ στρατιώτῃ παρὰ τοῦ υἱοῦ

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] Artemis to Theodoros, my lord husband in God, greetings. Before all things I pray to the Lord God that we may receive you back in good health. I sent you letters and a mantle (maphorion) through Apon your fellow soldier. I pray for your health. Your children greet you, and Allous threatens you much, since, though you have written often and greeted everyone, you alone did not greet her. Allous greets you. Artemis to Sarapion also called Isidoros. He writes: 'Even if you are a soldier and carry yourself with arrogance, the prefect quickly humbles arrogance.' You write to us as if frightening us, saying that the prefect does not want home-wreckers. But if you wish to cherish the whoring of your daughters, do not question me, but the elders of the church, how the two ran off saying 'We want men,' and how Loukra was found with her adulterer, making herself a Gaditanian dancer (?), because of which they are jealous that we have attached them to Soucharos. And if it were a matter of naming lineage, these things too we are ready to show, who is the more nobly born. For we were not born of a slave woman. I write these things to you, Theodoros, because he does everything on account of property (?), and letters must be sent to inform him (?). [verso] Deliver to Theodoros, soldier, from his son.

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