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An ostracon letter from Sertorius to the soldier Iulius Bithynus, wishing him recovery from illness and reporting that he shares quarters with Iulius's brother Longinus. He complains that a man called Iulius's 'commonoplarius' is acting against them by giving false testimony. Found at the Roman fort of Didymoi in the Eastern Desert.
The word komonoplarios is obscure; it may be a Greek rendering of a Latin military term (perhaps a kind of fellow armed soldier or 'common' hoplite). The Greek sentence about Diospolis is loosely constructed, so its rendering is approximate.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letters from Iulius to Valerius, Antonius, and Dolens. Sertorius). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Σερτόρις Ἰουλίῳ Βιθυνῷ πλεῖστα χαίρειν· ἤκουσα ὅτι ἠσθένησας· εὔχομαί σε ὑγιαίνειν. οἶδας καὶ σὺ ὅτι οὐθὲν ὧδε ἔχομεν πέμψαι σοι εὐθέως. τῷ ἀδελφῷ σου Λονγίνωι ὁμοῦ ζῶμεν. εἰρηκὼς μοι ὑπὲρ τοῦ κομονοπλαρίου σου εἰς Διὸς πόλιν καὶ οὐ πεπίστευκά σοι. ἀφ’ οὗ ἀνέβην, μετὰ Λονγίνου συ…
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