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Letter from Apollonios to the strategos Apollonios TM 19605Hermopolis (?)

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A private letter from a man named Apollonios to Apollonios, strategos of the Apollonopolite Heptakomia district. The writer reports visiting Lykopolis, receiving letters, failing to find a certain Ploution, and apologizes for not visiting because of unfinished business, promising to come in a few days.

In English machine translation

[recto] Apollonios to the most honoured Apollonios, greetings. Having been in Lykopolis on the 2nd and having received your letters, I was glad, brother, that you are well with your family, for this is what I pray for. I did not find Ploution staying there, but your commission (?) is said to have been completed. So this will be sent up to you at once, if he arrives. As for my not having come to you, I beg you to forgive me, for pending business kept me back. But in a few days, if the gods keep us safe, I will be with you. I pray for your health, my lord Apollonios, together with your children, may the evil eye spare them. Farewell. [verso] To Apollonios, strategos of the Apollonopolite Heptakomia.

The addressee is the well-known strategos Apollonios of the early 2nd century AD, whose archive was found near Hermopolis. "Brother" is a term of affection, not necessarily kinship; "entolion" is a commission or instruction whose exact sense here 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 eines Apollonios an den Strategen 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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Hermopolis (?)

[r] Ἀπολλώνιος Ἀπολλωνίωι τῶι τιμιωτάτωι χαίρειν. γενόμενος ἐν Λύκων πόλει τῆι β καὶ λαβών σου τὰ ἐπιστόλια ἥσθην, ἄδελφε, ἐπὶ τῶι σε ἐρρῶσθαι μετὰ τῶν σῶν, τοῦτο γάρ μοι διʼ εὐχῆς ἐστιν. Πλουτίωνα παρεπιδημοῦντα οὐχ εὗρον, λέγεται δὲ τὸ ἐντόλιόν σου ἀπηρτικέναι. τοῦτο οὖν εὐθέως…