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A short letter of the 6th century AD to a senior cleric, explaining that the writer could not come to receive his blessing because the master of the house fell ill during the night and grew worse that day. He asks for the cleric's prayers and promises to arrive by nightfall with the cleric's son, a lawyer, on pressing business.
The word translated 'indisposition' (aēdeia) usually means unpleasantness or trouble; here it most likely refers to an illness of the householder. A scholastikos was a legal advocate.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Brief an einen hohen Geistlichen). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
παρὰ πάνυ προῃρημένος ἐλθεῖν καὶ διὰ πολλοῦ χρόνου τῶν εὐχῶν τῆς σῆς ἁγιωσύνης ἀξιωθῆναι κεκώλυμαι ὑπὸ ἀηδείας τοῦ οἰκοδεσπότου ἀρξαμένης μὲν ἀπὸ τῆς νυκτὸς ἐπιταθείσης δὲ σήμερον. καταξιώσῃ οὖν ἡ σὴ θεοσέβεια εὔξασθαι ὑπὲρ ἐμοῦ, καὶ σὺν θεῷ ὑπὸ νύκτα μετὰ τοῦ υἱοῦ σου τοῦ σχολασ…
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