p.ifao.2.46
[…]χος Ἀπολλωνάρωι τῶι […]πολλὰ χαίρειν καὶ ὑγιαίνειν. […]πολλάκις σοι γράφω ὑπὲρ τοῦ […]κατέσθει με. ὑπὸ Παυσιρίωνος […]δραχμὰς τεσσεράκοντα δύο καὶ […]… αλκου[…]
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 25093
Letter to Apollonaros about a sum of 42 drachmas TM 25093unbekanntI
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Fragment of a private letter from a man whose name ends in -chos to Apollonaros. The writer says he has written often about some matter that troubles him, and mentions a certain Pausirion and a sum of 42 drachmas. It dates to the 1st century AD.
In English machine translation
[…]chos to Apollonaros, his […], very many greetings and good health.
[…] I write to you often about the […] is eating me up (?). By Pausirion […] forty-two drachmas and […]
[…] … alkou […]
The restoration [κατέ]σθει, literally "is eating", may be meant figuratively ("is consuming me"), but the context is lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lettre à Apollonaros). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.