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A private letter from Patron to Laches asking him to send a donkey, a shepherd and fodder so that a man named […]doros can come down, since he has been pestering Patron about Akkation's barley. Patron also asks Laches to strain some wine for him; the letter breaks off. It dates to the late 1st century AD and comes from Tebtynis in the Arsinoite nome.
The meaning of "eis koiten" (here "for bedding") and of "heliasterion", apparently a vessel or a measure of sun-dried wine (written over a deleted "keramion", jar), is uncertain. The place name after "from" is incomplete (Talei[…]), and 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 (catalogued as Lettera di Patron a Laches). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Πάτρων Λάχηι τῶι φιλτάτωι χαίρειν. ὄνον εἰς κοίτην αὔριον πέμψον καὶ ποιμένα καὶ χορτάρια, ἵνα […]δωρος κατέλθῃ, ἐπεὶ πολλά με διενόχλησεν ἕνεκα τῆς κριθῆς Ἀκκατίωνος· εὐθέως οὖν μνησθήσῃ αὐτῷ ἵνα ἐγκατέλθῃ· μὴ αὐτόν μοι κατέχῃς. ὕλισον δὲ αὐτῷ ἡλιαστήριον οἴνου ἀπὸ Ταλεί [… ? li…
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