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Letter from Papnouthis to his brother Dorotheos about a petition to the prefect TM 33711OxyrhynchosIV

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A private letter from Papnouthis to his brother Dorotheos about a dispute involving Eutrygios and people from the village of Syron. Papnouthis reports that he petitioned the prefect, who referred the matter to Ptolemaios, a councillor of Kynopolis, and he asks Dorotheos to get the landowner Diogenes to talk to Eutrygios. Written at Oxyrhynchus in the 4th century AD.

In English machine translation

To my lord brother Dorotheos, Papnouthis. Panechotes came to me and told me that Eutrygios sent to you about the people from the village of Syron. If you learn that he wanted to speak to you, tell him that I petitioned my lord the prefect about this. He ordered Ptolemaios, the councillor of Kynopolis, to hear the matter, and he has made a report, so that I may again present myself before the excellency of my lord the most illustrious prefect. And go to our landowner Diogenes. Make him speak with Eutrygios, and write back to me what you have done with them. I pray for your health for many years, lord brother.

Papnouthis and Dorotheos are known from a 4th-century archive of brothers at Oxyrhynchus. 'Politeuomenos' means a member of the town council (curial), here of Kynopolis.

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 Papnuthis to Dorotheus). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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p.oxy.48.3398

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

κυρίῳ μου ἀδελφῷ Δωροθέῳ Παπνοῦθις. ἐλθὼν Πανεχώτης πρὸς με καὶ εἶπέν μοι ὅτι ἔπεμψε Εὐτρύγιος πρὸς σὲ περὶ τῶν ἀπὸ κώμης Σύρων. ἐὰν μάθῃς ὅτι ἠθέλησεν πρὸς σὲ λέγειν εἰπὲ αὐτῷ ὅτι ἐνέτυχον τῷ δεσπότῃ μου τῷ ἐπάρχῳ περὶ τούτου. ἐκέλευσεν Πτολεμαίῳ τῷ πολιτευομένῳ τῆς Κυνὼ ἀκροᾶσα…