One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 32146
Letter about hiring ox-teams and workmen TM 32146unbekanntIII - IV
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A private letter reporting efforts to hire ox-teams for farm work. The writer obtained one team from Horion's brother, was refused another by Potamon because its owner had gone to the city, and found a third whose driver would only work for a daily wage of 12 drachmas.
In English machine translation
[…] to his dearest, greetings.
I want you to know that I went from Paseuthoi (?) to the brother of Horion about the ox-team, and he agreed to give it to him, and I got the workmen ready. I also went to Potamon about the other ox-team, and he said: "The owner of the ox-team has gone up to the city, and the ploughman will not consent to come without him." I negotiated with another ox-team, and he did not agree to work on contract terms, but by the day, for as many days as he spends, asking 12 drachmas for each day.
Farewell.
The word taurikon refers to a team of oxen (with its driver) used for ploughing or irrigation work. "Paseuthoi" may be a personal or place name; the reading is unclear.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lettre privée relative à un attelage). 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.gen.1.2ed.76
[…]τῷ φιλτάτῳ χαίρειν. γιγνώσκειν σὲ θέλω ὅτι παρὰ Πασευθοι ἐπορεύθην πρὸς τὸν ἀδελφὸν Ὡρίωνος ἕνεκα τοῦ ταυρικοῦ, καὶ συνέθετο δοῦναι αὐτῷ, καὶ τοὺς ἐργάτας ἐν ἑτοίμῳ ἐποίησα. ἐγενόμην καὶ πρὸς Ποτάμωνα ἕνεκα τοῦ ἄλλου ταυρικοῦ, καὶ ἔφη λέγων· ὁ κύριος τοῦ ταυρικοῦ εἰς τὴν πόλιν…