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A short business letter from Victor, a deputy of a great landowning household, to George, its administrator, urgently asking him to send or bring the escort Theodoros within two days because a money-changer needs him to travel to Alexandria. It was written at Oxyrhynchus in the 6th or 7th century AD.
An antigeouchos acted as representative of a great landowner, here probably the Apion family; the paraplompos was an escort or conductor of persons or goods. The letter belongs to a larger correspondence of Victor and George.
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 Victor to George). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
The letters P.Oxy. XVI 1844 to 1861, with 1936, 1937, 1940, all belong to a single group. To the same correspondence belong also P.Oxy. I 158 and P.Oxy. VI 943. The centre of this group is Victor, who writes most of the letters. Many of the letters are addressed to a certain Geor…
[r] † εὐθέως καὶ κατʼ αὐτὴν τὴν ὥραν Θεόδωρον τὸν παραπομπὸν πέμψῃ μοι ἐνταῦθα ἡ σὴ γνησία λαμπρότης, ἐπειδὴ αὐτὸν ἀναβλέπει ὁ περίβλεπτος ἀργυροπράτης κατελθεῖν ἐπὶ Ἀλεξάνδρειαν. ἀλλὰ πάντως ἐνέγκῃ αὐτὸν μεθʼ ἑαυτῆς καὶ καταλάβῃ συντόμως διὰ τῆς μεταύριον. οὐδὲ γὰρ πλέον δύνομαι…
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