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A short official letter from Horion to his assistant Dorotheos, written at Oxyrhynchus around AD 360. Horion has sent a soldier and a messenger of the strategos so that the persons liable can be made to deliver 10 pounds of wax for Alexandria, and he orders that they not be delayed and that money be sent with Kopreus the same day.
The word after 'wax-supply' (kaiēkonos) is unexplained in the text as transmitted, so the exact purpose of the wax is uncertain. A symmachos was a courier or messenger attached to an official.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter from Horion to Dorotheus). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Ὡρίων Δωροθέῳ βοηθῷ χαίρειν. ἀπέστειλα πρὸς σὲ Γερόντιον στρατιώτην καὶ Δημήτριον σύμμαχον στρατηγοῦ ὅπως ποιήσῃς τοὺς ὑπευθύνους πληρῶσαι αὐτοὺς κηροῦ λίτρας ι τοῦ κηρῶνος καιηκονος Ἀλεξανδρίας. ἀλλʼ ὅρα μὴ κατάσχῃς αὐτοὺς ὥραν μίαν . καὶ ἀπόστειλον τὰ ἀργύρια διὰ Κοπρέως ἐν τῇ …
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