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A private letter from Menon to his brother Hermokrates, reporting that a mare which was supposed to reach them via a Jewish man whose name they do not know has not been delivered. He also asks Hermokrates to buy purple dye or wool worth 2 staters each for himself and for Aphrodisia. Written in the Thebaid in the 2nd century BC.
The postscript requesting purple is written after the closing farewell. "Staters" here likely refers to a value or weight of purple dye or purple-dyed wool; the exact sense is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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] Μένων Ἑρμοκράτει τῷ ἀδελφῶι χαίρειν. εἰ ἔρρωσαι, ἐρρώμεθα δὲ καὶ αὐτοὶ καὶ Ἀφροδισία καὶ ἡ θυγάτηρ καὶ ἡ παιδίσκη καὶ ἡ θυγάτηρ αὐτῆς. ἔγραψας ἡμῖν διὰ τὸ […] κέναι ἡμῖν τὴν ἵππον καὶ παρʼ Ἰουδαίου […]σθαι αὐτήν, οὗ τὸ ὄνομα ἀγνοοῦμεν. αὐτοῦ δὲ μηδʼ ἀποδεδωκότος ἡμῖν μηδὲ ἵππ…
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