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[… ? lines lost …] …[…]…ων…[…] και…[…]εν ἐρωτῶ …[…] οὐδέποτε ἠρνησάμην …[…]εται γὰρ ἐλπίζω πάλιν ι…[…] μου ἐλθεῖν· ἂν μὲν λέγει …[…] εἰ δ’ ἄρα μή, δώσω Μαξίμωι τῶι ὀπτίωνι καὶ ἐνέγκει σοι ἀσπάζου Φάβιον τὸν ἀδελφόν μου καὶ Μάκερα. ἔρρωσο.
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Letter mentioning delivery through Maximus the optio TM 144910Didymoi
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End of a private letter on an ostracon from the Roman fort of Didymoi in the Eastern Desert, part of the archive of Marcus Longinus. The writer says that, failing another arrangement, he will hand something to Maximus the optio to bring to the recipient, and sends greetings to Fabius and Macer.
In English machine translation
[… lines lost …]
[…] […]
and […] I ask […]
I never refused […] for […] I hope again […]
of mine to come. If he says […]
but if not, I will give it to Maximus the optio, and he will bring it to you.
Greet Fabius my brother
and Macer.
Farewell.
An optio was a junior Roman army officer, an assistant to a centurion. The beginning of the letter is lost, so the object being sent is unknown.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Gaii and Longini: Marcus Longinus' Archive). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.