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Letter from Zoilos to Horion about a sowing account and grain for the hungry TM 30212OxyrhynchosIII - IV

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A private business letter from Zoilos to Horion, probably his estate agent, about an account of last year's sowing brought by 'little Pagenes'. Zoilos asks Horion to settle the account, hold the wine collected by the field-guard, and arrange for Besarion to give some grain to hungry people in the hamlet. Written at Oxyrhynchus in the 3rd-4th century AD.

In English machine translation

Zoilos to his dearest Horion, greetings. Little Pagenes brought me a small account of last year's sowing, which I have sent to you. So mediate between them, and whatever you find agreeing with the small account, collect it and keep it with yourself until we determine what ought to be given to little Pagenes himself and what is to be credited to the account of what he owes. But also collect the wine which the field-guard receives and keep it with yourself until we decide something. And about this little Pagenes […] that some people are starving in the hamlet, especially Lou[…]. So find out, and have a little grain given to them by Besarion for their sustenance, showing him my letter. I pray for your health.

The verb describing what little Pagenes said about the starving people is illegible. An epoikion was a small farm settlement or hamlet attached to an estate.

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 Zoilus to Horion). 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.45.3253

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · III - IV · Oxyrhynchos

Ζωίλος Ὡρίωνι τῷ φιλτάτῳ χαίρειν. Παγένης ὁ μικρὸς λογαρίδιόν μοι ἤνεγκεν τῆς περυσινῆς κατασπορᾶς ὅπερ σοι ἔπεμψα. μεταξὺ οὖν αὐτῶν γενοῦ καὶ ὅπερ ἐὰν καταλάβῃς σύνφωνον ἀπὸ τοῦ λογαριδίου τοῦτο ἀπόλαβε καὶ ἄφες παρὰ σεαυτῷ ἔστʼ ἂν δοκιμάσωμεν τί ὀφείλει αὐτῷ τῷ μικρῷ Παγένι δοθ…