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A short letter from Menas, a chartularius (estate clerk), to his master Theodoros, comes and pagarch, at Oxyrhynchus in the 6th or 7th century AD. Menas explains that the great house has only one trained young horse, which he has sent by the stableman, and that its three other horses are fit only to carry loads.
The 'glorious house' is the great estate household; Menas addresses his master in the third person as 'your Magnificence' ('it'). The phrase rendered 'broken in under a young man' is obscure and its meaning uncertain.
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 Menas to Theodore). 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] † † καὶ διὰ τοῦ πεμφθέντος μοι παρὰ τῆς ὑμετέρας προστατικῆς μεγαλοπρεπείας φύλακος γεγράφηκα αὐτῇ ὅτι εἰ μὴ ἓν ἱππάριν πεποιημένον ὑποκάτω νεωτέρου οὐκ ἔχει ὁ ἔνδοξος οἶκος, καὶ τοῦτο ἔπεμψα διὰ τοῦ γραμματηφόρου σταβλίτου. οἶδεν γὰρ κύριος, δέσποτα, εἰ μὴ τὰ ἄλλα τρία ἱπποκ…
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