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Letter from Dioskoros to his mother and brother Sarmates about legal affairs TM 22531Oxyrhynchosca. 340 (?)

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A letter from Dioskoros to his mother and his brother Sarmates, sent with Paianios, reporting on legal business: the affair of Eulogios has been settled, he lodged an imperial rescript about the property of Philagrios, and after being held by the office of the magister he was released through the intervention of a eunuch. It was found at Oxyrhynchus and dates to about AD 340.

In English machine translation

[recto] To my lady mother and my lord brother Sarmates, Dioskoros, greetings. Having found my lord brother Paianios departing, I hastened to greet your disposition, and then to inform you about the affair of my lord brother Eulogios, that it has been settled (?) and we are already coming to you. And I deposited the imperial rescript concerning the property of my lord Philagrios, and minutes were drawn up. And after my brother Serenos went out, I was handed over to the office of the magister, and after two days, when Eusebios came, since he had gone off to install the dux at Taposiris, we were brought in, and the eunuch sent to him and he released me, and he made a second set of minutes and released them completely. […] that the people of Hermias and Didy[…] be sent on […] I am reaching you. If you hear […] do not believe it. I pray for your health for many years. [verso] To my lord (?) […] Sarmates […] Dioskoros […]

The magister is probably the head of an imperial office (magister officiorum), and the dux was a military commander; Taposiris lies west of Alexandria. 'Brother' and 'lord' may be terms of courtesy rather than kinship.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Dioscorus to his Mother and Sarmates). 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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p.oxy.55.3820

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · ca. 340 (?) · Oxyrhynchos

[r] τῇ δεσποίνῃ μου μητρὶ καὶ κυρίῳ ἀδελφῷ Σαρμάτῃ Διόσκορος χαίρειν. εὐπορηθεὶς τοῦ κυρίου μου ἀδελφοῦ Παιανίου ἀπερχομένου ἔσπευσα προσειπεῖν ὑμῶν τὴν διάθεσιν, ἔπειτα δηλῶσαί σοι περὶ τοῦ πράγματος τοῦ κυρίου μου ἀδελφοῦ Εὐλογίου ὅτι ἀπετέθη καὶ ἤδη ἀπαντῶμεν πρὸς ὑμᾶς. καὶ τὴ…