Letter from Apollonios to the exegetes Sarapodoros on civic and business matters TM 15656Oxyrhynchos

Greetings, my lord brother Sarapodoros, I, Apollonios, address you. I have sent you a letter of Andromachos so that you may deliver it and send us the reply quickly. His request concerns the preservation for him of the decree of his assumption of the gymnasiarchy; and if it is possible, do not hesitate to have the days which he was compelled to perform in excess last year credited to him against the annual ones. If not, at least let the decree be preserved from now on. For this is most just. Achilleus has done nothing and demanded nothing concerning the wine. He seemed to be irritated about this. The price of wine here is very depressed, for it stands at as little as 1,900 drachmas, so that, if you can ask Alexander the Akoreite to [...] have it brought to me by his boat, do so, as much as you find, for the purposes you write of. However, the Antinoite contractors declared to me that either we buy your goods jointly at the same price or we take them back to your brother. I have handed over the rugs, for the shorthand writer did not give me a rug. He promised, however, to give me 9[...] drachmas for a new one. You ought to know, however, that you must appear in the matter of the appeal before the deadline according to the edict. There is here an official of the estate administration seeking the penalty for appeals, [margin] who also to us, on account of the matter then before the estate official concerning a note of hand for 6 talents, and up to now we have done nothing yet with him; if anything new is done, it will be made known to you. Our little children greet you, and their mother, and all our people. I pray for your health, my lord. [verso] To Sarapodoros, exegetes, from Apollonios.