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A fragmentary 6th-century letter from the archive of Dioscoros of Aphrodito, written by an official to Apollos or his son Dioscoros. It reports that a count and the scholastikos Hermogenes were angry that a woman held in custody had not yet been sent on, and that the count ordered her prompt release; the writer urges that she be sent at once, adding that her brother is slandering them.
A scholastikos was a legally trained advocate or adviser. The end of the letter is lost, and the address on the back is incomplete.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lettre). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Letter addressed by an official to Apollos or to Dioscoros, his son, on the subject of a woman who has been kept in prison (cf. 67078), and to whom the praeses has, in vain, ordered her discharge. The address on the verso of the document is incomplete. Belongs to the archive of D…
ἐν …ιστῃ ὥρᾳ ἐν ᾗ ἀπήντησα τῷ μεγαλοπρεπεστάτῳ κόμετι[…]καὶ τῷ θαυμασιωτάτῳ σχολαστικῷ Ἑρμογένει, οὐκ ὀλίγην ἀγανάκτησιν ἐποίησαν περὶ τῆς γυναικὸς τῆς ἀσφαλισθείσης, ὡς μὴ παραπεμφθείσης ἕως νῦν. καὶ ἀντεῖπον ὡς ἐκ κελεύσεως ὑμετέρας οὐκ ἐποιήσαμεν τοῦτο. καὶ παραχρῆμα ἔγραψεν π…
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