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End of a private letter addressed to Gymnasios, in which the writer says he has no news yet because he has barely been settled into his lodgings, and sends greetings to the most excellent Agenor, Souchas, Didymos, Agathemeros and the recipient's household. It dates from the mid-3rd to early 4th century AD.
The verb katastathmizesthai means to be assigned quarters or billeted, suggesting the writer had just arrived somewhere, perhaps as a soldier or official. The beginning 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 (catalogued as Privatbrief). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] [… ? lines lost …] […]ις σοι …[…] …[…]ρωσσω ἀνθρώπῳ. καινὸν οὐδὲν οὔπω σοι γράφειν εἶχον. σχεδὸν γὰρ οὔπω οὐδὲ τέλεον κατεσταθμίσθην. τὸν κράτιστον Ἀγήνορα πολλὰ παρ’ ἐμοῦ ἄσπασαι καὶ Σουχᾶν καὶ Δίδυμον καὶ Ἀγαθήμερον καὶ τοὺς σοὺς πάντας. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι πολλοῖς χρόνοις.…
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