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cpr.30.21 Hermopolites
Contro l'invio di un contadino a Babylon via HGV-meta
Letter asking that a farmer not be sent to Babylon at sowing time. Fragmentary end of a Christian letter from the Hermopolite nome asking the recipient, addressed with a respectful title, to stop a man (apparently a farmer) from being sent to Babylon, since it is sowing time. The writer also reports that someone complained against the recipient to a high-ranking chartularius and that only the writer's closeness to him prevented trouble. machine translation
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- Contro l'invio di un contadino a Babylon HGV-meta Hermopolites640
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Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
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αὐτοῦ θέλοντες πέμψαι αὐτὸν εἰς
Βαβυλῶνα. ἴστε οὖν καὶ ἂν μὴ γράψω ὅτι
καιρός ἐστιν ἄρτι τῆς σπορᾶς. παρακληθῇ
οὖν κελεύσῃ μὴ παρελθεῖν δι’ αὐτοῦ
εἰς τὸ ἅπαξ τοῦτο ἀλλὰ πάντως μὴ
ἀποτύχω τῆς παρακλήσεώς μου ἐπεὶ
θέλω ἀποθεραπεῦσαι αὐτὸν πλεῖον ὅλων
τῶν ἀνθρώπων τῆς ἐμῆς βραχύτητος †
γνησίως διὰ τοῦ γράμματος ὡς παρὼν
ἀσπάζομαι αὐτὴν ἐν κυρίῳ. γνω…[…]
θ… βούλομαι αὐτὴν ὡς ἦλθεν ἡ ἀπόκρισις
καὶ προσῆλθεν τῷ μεγαλοπρεπεστάτῳ χαρτουλαρίῳ κατ’ αὐτῆς
καὶ εἰ μὴ ὅτι ἐγγὺς αὐτοῦ εἰμι τότε πολλὰ
κακὰ γίνονται, πλὴν ἐρχομένου αὐτῆς
ἔχει μαθεῖν ὅλα †Translations (1)
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of him, wishing to send him to Babylon. So you know, even if I do not write, that it is now the time of sowing. Please, then, order that (?) he not be passed over (?) through him for this once, but by all means let me not fail in my request, since I wish to serve him more than all the people of my humble self. †
Sincerely, through this letter, as if present, I greet you (lit. her) in the Lord. […] I want you (lit. her) to know (?) that when the answer came, he also approached the most magnificent chartularius against you (lit. her), and if it were not that I am near him, then many evils would happen; but when you (lit. she) come, you will be able to learn everything. †
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