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Fragmentary private letter from Didymos to Apolinarios concerning family land and property, including advice from a scribe about the cost of clearing it. Didymos also complains that Zoidous left without telling him and that Apolinarios has not written back.
The beginning is lost and several clauses are syntactically obscure, so the sense of the passage about parents' property and the scribe's advice is uncertain; 'cleared' may refer to removing or demolishing something.
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,ctr] [… ? lines lost …] […]…ιμισ[…]…ν…ρ[…] ἄρουραν καὶ τὰ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ τοῦ πατρός σου πάλιν ὡσαύτως· ἀλλὰ πάντοτε τὰ τῶν γονέων γλυκύτερά ἐστιν, εἰ μὴ ἐν ἰδίᾳ ἐμοῦ ἄξια καὶ καλά· ἐπὰν ἐπυθόμην τοῦ γραμματέως περὶ τούτων, ἐὰν πάλιν δαπανήσῃς μεγάλην δαπάνην, δύνασαι αὐτὰ καθαιρε…
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