Private Letter
Letter written by Aurelius Athenodoros to the rhetor Serenus to give him instructions for the lading of barley in the Oxyrhynchite nome
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Letter from Athenodoros to the rhetor Serenus about loading barley TM 31551Unknown place(Early) IIIrd century A.D.
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A letter from Aurelius Athenodoros to Serenus, a rhetor (advocate), about loading barley in the Oxyrhynchite nome. Athenodoros has sent a donkey and three boats and asks Serenus to summon Maximus urgently, wherever he is, to carry out the loading. It dates to the early 3rd century AD.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Aurelius Athenodoros to his dearest Serenus, greetings.
I have written to Maximus to load the barley that is in the Oxyrhynchite nome, and I have sent off the donkey and 3 whole boats. So if he is at Posompous or in some other place, send for him as quickly as possible so that he may leave everything and come and carry out the loading, and you too, then, help me in this.
[verso]
To Serenus, rhetor, from Aurelius Athenodoros.
A rhetor was a trained advocate or orator who represented parties in legal matters. Posompous is a village name; the letter's place of writing is unknown, though its business concerns the Oxyrhynchite nome.
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 Athenodoros to Serenus). 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.mich.10.602
[r] Αὐρήλιος Ἀθηνόδωρος Σερήνωι τῶι φιλτάτῳ χαίρειν. ἔγραψα Μαξίμῳ ἐμβαλέσθαι τὴν κριθὴν τὴν ἐν Ὀξυρυγχίτῃ, καὶ τὸν ὄνον καὶ ὅλα γ πλοῖα διεπεμψάμην. ἐὰν οὖν ἐν Ποσονποῦς ἦν ἢ ἐν ἄλλῳ τινὶ τόπῳ, μετάπεμψαι αὐτὸν τὴν ταχίστην ὅπως πάντα καταλιπὼν ἔλθηι καὶ τὴν ἐμβολὴν ποιήσηται, κ…