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A sixth-century letter from Menas to two officials with the rank of comes, John and Joseph, at Oxyrhynchus. He urges them to pressure the people of Nikrou to pay their grain levy, since he himself is being pressed for payment.
The embole was the grain tax shipped to Alexandria and Constantinople. The phrase 'by your welfare' (literally 'its welfare') is a polite oath formula referring to the addressees' magnificence.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter to two Comites). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] † ἵνα μὴ πολλὰ γράψω καὶ ἀπὸ λύπης εὑρεθῶ τῆς ὑμῶν ἀδελφικῆς μεγαλοπρεπείας πάλιν καὶ νῦν παρανακαλῶ ὑμᾶς δυσωπῆσαι τοὺς ἀπὸ Νίκρου δοῦναι τὴν ἐμβολήν. οἶδεν γάρ, καὶ ἂν μὴ γράψω, ὅτι καὶ ἡμεῖς ἀπαιτούμεθα καὶ μάλιστα ἐπὶ τοῦ παρόντος. τὴν οὖν σωτηρίαν αὐτῆς μὴ ἀποτύχω τῆς αἰ…
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