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Fragmentary end of a private letter from Oxyrhynchus, 2nd century AD, exchanging greetings and asking for reliable news of how many months pregnant Dionysarion is. It also reports that Herminos has gone to Rome and become an imperial freedman so as to obtain official posts.
"Freedman of Caesar" means a former slave of the emperor, a status that opened careers in the imperial administration; 'offikia' is the Latin officia, official posts. The beginning of the letter is lost, so the writer and recipient are unknown.
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.
[r] [… ? lines lost …] […]…[…] […]…υιο…[…] […] τὰ ἀβάσκαντα αὐτοῦ τέκνα καὶ Ἰσιδώραν τὴν ἀδελφήν σου καὶ Ἀθηναΐδα. καὶ γράψον μοι ἀσφαλῶς περὶ Διονυσαρίου ὅτι πόσων μηνῶν ἐστιν. ἀσπάζεταί σε Γαΐα καὶ τὰ τέκνα αὐτῆς καὶ ὁ σύμβιος. γίγνωσκε οὖν ὅτι Ἑρμῖνος ἀπῆλθεν εἰς Ῥώμην καὶ ἀπε…
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