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Letter from Apollonios to Dioskourides urging collection of dues TM 29035OxyrhynchitesII

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A private business letter in which Apollonios urges Dioskourides to press harder in collecting money owed by the people on his list, especially the reliable debtors, because everything has had to be paid into the bank. He adds that a certain Polydas has collected nothing and that he himself has had to stay where he is.

In English machine translation

[recto] Apollonios to his dearest Dioskourides, greetings. As I asked you earnestly in person to make the collection from the names (debtors) in your charge, so now too I ask you to apply yourself still more to the collection, especially from the solid names, since we have been compelled to pay everything into the bank. I found that Polydas too has collected nothing, and I have necessarily stayed here. Farewell. [verso] To Dioskourides from Apollonios, his friend.

"Names" (onomata) is the accounting term for entries in a list of debtors or taxpayers; "solid names" probably means those able to pay.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter from Apollonius). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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p.oxy.38.2861

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · II · Oxyrhynchites

[r] Ἀπολλώνιος Διοσκουρίδῃ τῷ φιλτάτῳ χαίρειν. ὡς κατʼ ὄψιν σε ἠρώτησα ἐκτενῶς τὴν ἀπαίτησιν ποιήσασθαι τῶν παρὰ σοὶ ὀνομάτων καὶ νῦν σε ἐρωτῶ ἐπὶ πλέον προσελθεῖν τῇ ἀπαιτήσει ἐξαιρέτως καὶ τῶν στερεῶν ὀνομάτων ἐπεὶ πάντα ἠναγκάσθημεν βαλεῖν ἐπὶ τράπεζαν. εὗρον καὶ τὸν Πολυδᾶν μ…