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A private letter from Severus to Euploos asking whether the grape harvest on an estate has been completed, so that he can send a boat large enough to carry the whole produce. He has already found a boat and urges Euploos to come at once with the news so it does not sit idle. It comes from the Oxyrhynchite nome, late 2nd or early 3rd century AD.
The letter is written on the back of a sheet whose front text is lost; the opening phrase of the body is partly illegible, so 'you ought greatly' is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter of Severus). 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] [… 10 lines lost …] [v] παρὰ Σεουήρου Εὐπλόῳ. μεγάλως …αμειν εἴχατε πέμψαι μοι φάσιν περὶ τοῦ κτήματος, πότερον ἐτρυγήσατε ἢ οὐ, ἵνα αὐτάρκες πλοῖον τῶν ὅλων παραλαβὼν πέμψω. εἰ οὖν ἐτρυγήσατε, ἄνελθε φέρων μοι τὴν φάσιν, ἵνα ἐξαυτῆς καὶ τὸ πλοῖον ἐξέλθῇ· εὗρον γάρ. ὑπὲρ τοῦ …
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