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A short letter from Alypios, owner of a large estate, to his manager Heroninos at Thraso. He tells him to feed a team of oxen under Demeas with green hay for the one day it will spend there working, and to pay the ox-driver his usual allowance. It dates to 24 January 263, from the Heroninos archive of Theadelphia.
The word translated 'team of oxen' (taurikon) means a group of bulls or oxen used for estate work. 'Year 10' is the tenth regnal year of Gallienus.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Corrispondenza heroniniana - Alypios). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[v] παρὰ Ἀλυπίου. ἐπεὶ ἐκέλευσα τὸ ταυρικὸν τὸ ὑπὸ Δημήαν παρὰ σοὶ μεῖναι τροφὰς αὐτῷ παράσχες χόρτου χλωροῦ πρὸς τὴν μίαν ἡμέραν ἣν ποιεῖ ἐκεῖ ἐπεὶ ἔργον ἐκέλευσα αὐτῷ τι ποιῆσαι. δὸς δὲ τῷ ταυρελάτῃ τὴν συνήθη δαπάνην. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι φίλτατε. Ἡρωνείνῳ φροντιστῇ Θρασώ. ἔτου…
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