One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 24902

Letter from Demetris to Gaius TM 24902unbekanntI - II

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Fragmentary private letter from Demetris to Gaius, opening with the usual greeting formulas. Only scattered words survive, including a possible reference to teaching and to going out before everyone enters. Dated to the 1st or 2nd century AD.

In English machine translation

[recto, centre] Demetris to Gaius the […], greetings […] Before all else I considered it necessary to greet you by letter. I want you to know […] […] honour (?) […] I pasture (?) […] […] to you […] […] and […] […] […] […] [… lines lost …] [recto, margin] opposite me […] teaching (?) […] […] [verso] and […] so that I may go out […] before all enter […]

The word read as "I pasture" (grastizo, normally said of feeding animals green fodder) is uncertain, as is the reference to teaching in the margin.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Private Letter). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

p.freib.4.57

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · I - II

[r,ctr] Δημῆτρις Γαίῳ τῷ …[…] χαίρειν[…] πρὸ μὲν πάντων ἀναγκαῖον ἡγησάμην διʼ ἐπιστολῆς προσαγορεῦσαί σε. γινώσκειν σε θέλω[…] εντυρη τιμη[…] γραστίζω δε[…] …ας…ατα[…] σοι ν…[…] οις καὶ ψ[…] δε…μο…[…] …αντ[…] σι…ε…[…] [… ? lines lost …] [r,ms] ἀπέναντί μου …… διδασκαλικ…[…]…[…] …