Letter of Pausanias about the transfer of a young recruit to the ala at Koptos TM 31777OxyrhynchosIII

Pausanias to Herakleides his brother, greeting. I suppose that our brother Sarapammon has told you the reason why I went down to Alexandria, and I have already written to you before about little Pausanias, that he had enlisted in a legion. Well, since he no longer wished to be in a legion but in a cavalry unit (ala), when I learned this I was obliged to go to him, though I did not want to. So, having been earnestly begged by his mother and sister to get him transferred to Koptos, I went down to Alexandria and used many means until he was transferred to the ala at Koptos. Then, though I wanted to come to you on the voyage upstream, we were hemmed in by the leave granted to the boy by the most illustrious prefect, and for this reason I was unable to come to you. So, gods willing, I will try to be with you for the festival of the Amesysia. Take care then, brother, about the document of the mortgage, so that it is completed as is customary. I urge you, brother, to write to me about your health, since I heard in Antinoou that there has been a plague among you. Do not neglect this, so that I too may be more at ease about you. [margin] Greet warmly my lady mother and my sister and our children, whom the evil eye may not touch. Pausanias greets you. I pray for your health with all your household. [verso] To the Oxyrhynchite nome, to Herakleides […] from Pausanias his brother.