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A private letter from Apolinarios to Horigenes, whom he calls brother, saying he has sent a container of cheeses through Paulos to be given to Theoktistos, the collector of the annona tax, and asking Horigenes to request two more days from him and to write back. It dates to the late 4th century AD.
The sambathos is a container or measure of uncertain size. The middle of the letter is grammatically loose and partly illegible, so the exact request regarding the two days and Nikon 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 Brief des Apolinarios an Horigenes). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
κυρίῳ μου ἀδελφῷ Ὡριγένῃ Ἀπολινάριος. ἀπέστειλα διὰ Παύλου σάμβαθον τυρῶν, ὅπως παράσχῃς αὐτὸ Θεοκτίστῳ τῷ ἀπαιτητῇ τῶν ἀννωνῶν καὶ ἀξιώσῃς αὐτόν, ὅτι χρείαν αὐτοῦ ἔχει εἰς ἀγρόν, ἄλλας ἡμέρας δύο καὶ γράψῃς μοι περὶ τούτου ε…πετε… Νίκωνι, ἵνα καθʼ ἑκάστην ὑπάγει εἰς τὸν χόρτον. …
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