One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 27581
Letter from Eudaimonis to her son Apollonios the strategos TM 27581Apollonopolites Heptakomias
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Opening of a private letter from Eudaimonis to her son Apollonios, strategos, praying for his safety and that of his wife Aline and their children. Only the greeting and the start of the body survive. It belongs to the archive of Apollonios, strategos of the Apollonopolite Heptakomias district.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Eudaimonis to Apollonios, her most affectionate son, greetings.
Before all else I pray that you are kept safe together with your wife Aline and your children, may the evil eye not touch them. […] and to the others and of the […] having […]
[verso]
To Apollonios, strategos
"Unharmed by the evil eye" renders abaskantos, a common protective epithet for children in letters. Apollonios was strategos in the early 2nd century AD, so the letter likely dates from then.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lettre d’Eudaimonis). 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.giss.apoll.4
[r] Εὐδαιμονὶς Ἀπολλωνίωι τῶι φιλοστοργοτάτωι υἱῶι χαίρειν. πρὸ τῶν ὅλων εὔχομαί σε διασῴζεσθαι ἅμα τῆι συμβίωι σου Ἀλινῆι καὶ ἀβασκάντοις σου παιδίοις. …[…]… δὲ τοῖς ἄλλοις καὶ τοῦ […]…ως Ι¨…ωνα ἔχι[…] [v] Ἀπολλωνίωι στρατηγῶι