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Letter from Luppicinus to Flavius Abinnaeus, commander of the fort at Dionysias, passing on instructions from an officialis of the dux Flavius Felicissimus that certain people be made to appear at once at a place called Leukokion. It belongs to the Abinnaeus archive and dates to around AD 346.
The officialis was a staff member of the military governor (dux); the people to be summoned are not named in the surviving text. The end of the letter is lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
κυρίῳ μου ἀδελφῷ Ἀβιννέῳ Λουππικῖνος. προηγουμένως εὔχομαι τῇ θείᾳ προνοίᾳ ὅπως εὐθυμοῦντί σοι ἀποδοθῆναί σοι τὰ παρʼ ἐμοῦ γράμματα. ἀνάγκη μοι γεγένηται δηλῶσαι τῇ σῇ καλοκαγαθίᾳ τὰ γραφέντα ὑπὸ τοῦ ὀφφικιαλίου τοῦ κυρίου μου δουκὸς Φλαυουίου Φιλικισσίμου ὅπως πάραυτα λαβών μου …
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