One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 33518

Fragment of a letter asking for someone to be sent and for a price to be paid TM 33518unbekanntIV

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Fragment of a private letter in which the writer asks the recipient to send someone (perhaps a boy or servant) or not to neglect him, and to send the price, complaining that someone has not written back. It dates to the 4th century AD.

In English machine translation

[…] […] to ask (?) […] me that you send me […] my boy (?) or do not neglect him, and send me the price; and until […] he does not bother (?) to write back to me, and now not to neglect […] he himself orders us; to me again I write […] […] you and to ask […] […] […]

The Greek is ungrammatical and partly unseparated; 'πεδαν' is probably a misspelling of παῖδα (boy, slave) and the phrase rendered 'does not bother to write back' 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 Lettera). 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.mil.2.85

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

[… ? lines lost …] ταξιωσησυπιησαιμοι ἵνα ἀποστείλῃς μοι νι[…] την τὸν πεδαν μου ἢ μὴ ἀμελήσῃς αὐτὸν καὶ ἀποστείλῃς μοι τὸ τίμημα καὶ μέχρις μ[…] οὐκ ἀλέξει αὐδάς μοι ἀντιγράψαι καὶ νῦν μὴ ἀμελῆσαι αὐτὸς κελεύει ἡμῖν εἰς ἐμὲ πάλιν γραφω ὑπομ[…] κασοι ὑμᾶς καὶ ἀξιῶσαι π[…] […]ας[……