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o.claud.2.299 Mitte IIMons Claudianus
Lettre de Sérapion via HGV-meta
Letter from Serapion to his father asking for a prose text to be copied. A short private letter on an ostracon from Serapion to his father, also named Serapion, found at the quarry site of Mons Claudianus in the mid-2nd century AD. He asks his father to buy a papyrus roll and pay the teacher Didymos to copy a prose text for him. machine translation
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TM 29712.
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- Lettre de Sérapion HGV-meta Mons ClaudianusMitte II
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
Σεραπίων Σεραπίωνι τῷ
πατρὶ πολλὰ χαίρειν. πρὸ παντὸς
εὔχομαί σου τὴν σωτηρίαν. ἀναγκαίως ἔσχον διʼ ἐπιστολιδίου ἀσπάσασθαι.
καλῶς ποιήσις, ἐὰν τὸν χάρτην
ἀγοράσῃς, ἀπελθὼν πρὸς Δίδυμον
τὸν καθηγητὴν καὶ δοὺς χαλκὸν
ἵνα μεταγράφηταί μοι πεζὸν
λόγον. λοιπὸν οὖν μὴ ἄλλως ποίει.Translations (1)
Serapion to Serapion his father, many greetings. Before all else I pray for your safety. I felt compelled to greet you by a little letter.
You will do well, if you buy the papyrus roll, to go to Didymos the teacher and give him money (bronze) so that he may copy out for me a prose text. For the rest, then, do not do otherwise.
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Found at
Mons Claudianus
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 29712 primary
- DDbDP-Text o.claud;2;299 tier-1
- HGV-Text 29712 tier-1
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