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A private letter from Makarios to Heliodoros, whom he calls his lord father, written in the late 4th century AD. After a Christian-style prayer for his health, Makarios reminds him to fulfil a request on behalf of their brother Kastor son of Pesos and to have an agent write to someone. The rest is lost.
"Father" and "brother" may be terms of respect in a Christian context rather than family ties. The abbreviation expanded as pragmateutes refers to an agent or business manager; the word read as Enkot is uncertain.
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 Macarius to Heliodorus). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r,ctr] κυρίῳ μου πατρὶ Ἡλιοδώρῳ Μακάριος. πρὸ μὲν ἁπάντων εὔχομαι τῷ Θεῷ περὶ τῆς εὐρωστίας σου. ἐπὶ τοσοῦτον μιμνήσκω ὅπως τὴν ἀξίωσιν πληρώσῃς διὰ τὸν ἀδελφὸν ἡμῶν Κάστορα Πεσοῦ Ἐνκωτ ?, ὅπως ποιήσῃς τὸν πραγματευτὴν γράψαι τοῖς […]μ… […]ε[…] [… ? lines lost …] [r,ms] πολλὰ πρ…
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