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Letter from Tryphon to the strategos Apollonios complaining of his silence TM 19461Hermopolites (?)113 - 120
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A private letter from Tryphon to Apollonios, strategos of the Apollonopolite Heptakomia, complaining that Apollonios has answered none of his many letters since they parted and has not put their shared affairs in order. It dates to AD 113-120, probably from the Hermopolite nome; the end is lost.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Tryphon to Apollonios his brother, greeting.
I have written you many letters since you went away from me and since those affairs in which we were involved together, but you have not written back to me at all in answer to any [...], nor are you setting those affairs right, so that at least in this respect we, being in Chakoi (?), might take pleasure in you. As for Herakleios, then, whom you always loved, when he came to you, this at least I gave up hope of [...]
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[verso]
To Apollonios, strategos of the Apollonopolite Heptakomia.
'Brother' is likely a term of friendship rather than kinship. The reading 'in Chakoi' as a place name is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Brief des Tryphon an Apollonios). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.giss.apoll.27
[r] Τρύφων Ἀπολλωνίωι τῶι ἀδελφῶι χαίρειν. πολλάς σοι ἐπιστολὰς ἔγραψα μετὰ τὸ ἀπαναχωρῆσαί σε ἐμοῦ καὶ μετὰ τὰ πράγματα ἐκεῖνα ἐν οἷς ἐγενόμεθα ὁμοῦ οὐδʼ ὅλως πρὸς οὐδεμίαν τ[…]ν ἐπέστειλάς μοι ἀλλʼ οὐδὲ ἐκεῖνα πράγματα διευθύνεις, ἵνα γε κατὰ τοῦτο ἐν Χάκοις ὄντες ἡσθῶμεν ἐπὶ σ…