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A short business letter from Diogenes to his assistants Dorotheos and Papnouthios at Oxyrhynchus. He has sent another assistant, Eudaimon, to have them make up 24 solidi (20 for the chrysargyron tax and 4 for Constantianopolis) and to collect arrears of the 3rd and 4th indictions from the grain officials and village heads.
The chrysargyron was a tax in gold and silver levied on traders and craftsmen in the 4th and 5th centuries. Dorotheos and Papnouthios are known from a 4th-century archive of tax collectors at Oxyrhynchus; 'Constantianopolis' is probably Constantinople or a levy connected with it.
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 Diogenes to Dorotheus and Papnuthis). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Διογένης Δωροθέῳ καὶ Παπνουτίῳ βοηθοῖς. Εὐδαίμονα τὸν ἡμέτερον βοηθὸν ἀπέστειλα ἵνα τὰ εἴκοσι τέσσαρα νομισμάτια συμπληρώσητε, τὰ μὲν εἴκοσι τὰ ἀπὸ λόγου τοῦ χρυσαργύρου, τὰ δὲ τέσσαρα τὰ ἀπὸ λόγου τῆς Κωνσταντιανοπόλεως· οὐ μόνον δὲ ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰς λοιπάδας τῆς γ καὶ δ ἰνδικτιόνων …
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