Letter
Letter from Horeion to Apollonios, asking him to send a medicine chest with some medicines.
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Letter from Horeion to his father Apollonios asking for a medicine chest TM 28902Unknown place, province of EgyptIInd or IIIrd century A.D.
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A short private letter from Horeion to his father Apollonios, announcing that he has sent 908 silver drachmas with a lodger and asking his father to send him the medicine chest along with two medicines obtained from the doctor, one stinging and one milder. It dates to the 2nd or 3rd century AD; its place of origin is unknown.
In English machine translation
Horeion to Apollonios his father, greetings.
Receive, by this letter, 908 silver drachmas, which I sent with a certain lodger. Send me the medicine chest, after asking the doctor for a stinging (?) medicine and another milder one.
I pray for your health.
The Greek 'daknēron' means biting or stinging, probably a sharp or astringent remedy contrasted with a 'sweeter', gentler one. The sum of 908 drachmas is written as a numeral; 'enoikos' means a tenant or lodger.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as 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.
p.oslo.2.54
Ὡρείων Ἀπολλωνίωι τῶι πατρὶ χαίρειν. κόμισαι διὰ γράμματος ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς ϡη ὃ ἔπεμψα σύν τινι ἐνοίκῳ. πέμψον μοι τὴν φαρμακοθήκην αἰτήσας παρὰ τοῦ ἰατροῦ φάρμακον δακνηρὸν καὶ ἕτερον ἡδύτερον. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι.