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A letter from the official Lysimachos to Leontiskos, Thymos and Tesenouphis demanding immediate payment of 13 talents still owed on their lease of an orchard, including sums for which Harpalos had been their surety. He threatens to send men to bring them to Krokodilopolis if they do not pay at once; the letter dates to 181 BC in the Fayum.
The recipients are described as a company of fruit-pickers leasing the orchard of Eirene. The threat 'not in the way you suppose' implies forcible arrest rather than a polite summons.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter January 11, 181 BC). 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 from Lysimachos to Leontiskos, Thymos, and Tesenouphis, who had formed a company of fruit-pickers, about 13 talents that they had to pay as rent upon the orchard of Eirene and as another debt to the goverment for which Harpalos was their surety
[r] Λυσίμαχος Λεοντίσκωι καὶ Θύμωι καὶ Τεσενούφει χαίρειν. οὐ διαγεγραφηκότες τὰ προσοφειλόμενα πρὸς τὴν μίσθωσιν τοῦ παραδείσου σὺν οἷς ἐξεδέξατο ὑμᾶς Ἅρπαλος, τάλαντα ιγ, ἀγνώμονες ἔσεσθε. οὐ μὴν δʼ ἀλλʼ ἔτι καὶ νῦν, εἰ μὴ ἅμα τῶι λαβεῖν τὴν ἐπιστολὴν ἀνακομιεῖτε τὰ ιγ τάλαντα …
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