Letter from Harpokras to his father Thrakidas about his recovery TM 22470Oxyrhynchos28. Jan. 76

[recto] Harpokras to Thrakidas his father, very many greetings. Knowing that you will be glad, I have necessarily written to you that there is nothing wrong with me, but only that for a very few days I was rather sluggish, and have long since been better (?), and there is nothing wrong with me. I was greatly delighted on reading your letter, in which I learned that you are in the best of health, lord father, and because I was in a serious state of mind, on receiving your letter, at that very hour I thought it was an oracle of a god, and I am in even better health. Receive from Petechon, who is also bringing you the letter, a sandal worth 4 drachmas. As for anything else you still need, let me know quickly, since I have only a few more days here… Greet Thatres my mother and Thaisous and Sarapion and Ariston and Tycharion and Nike and Eutych[…] and all those in the house. Year 8 of Imperator Caesar Vespasianus Augustus, Mecheir 2. [verso] From Harpokras to Thrakidas his father.