Letter asking an absent brother for authorization to manage family affairs TM 36080Antinoites (?)VI

[recto] † I have written on another occasion too to your brotherly lordship, through the symmachos (courier) of the attendants, about its expenses. I urge it to write to me continually about its health […] I urge it, if, God willing, your brotherly lordship does not come up, to write me its letter of authorization so that I may be able to take charge of the remaining affairs left to us, and so that your house may not be closed. Let it write to me what it wants for its own account and for the account of its slaves, for my information, and I will send it, so that it may not be forced to borrow elsewhere and pay double for single. I urge it also to write to our common lady, your mother, that she should come up, since, by the Lord God, she has been in Oxyrhynchus since your illustrious brotherhood went down to Alexandria, weeping and distressed and grieved, as I said before, since it departed from her. In every way therefore […] your illustrious brotherhood to come up; meanwhile to make me the letter of authorization so that I may readily, with God's help and with the assistance of lord Kosmas the embolator, take care of the remaining affairs left to us. I write this, making many obeisances and kissing the footprints of your illustrious brotherhood until I see you, master. [verso] …