Fragment of a Latin letter about tracking down and exacting from evasive persons TM 69896Unknown(Second half of the) IInd century A.D. (Marichal: IIIrd century, Sanders)

A small Latin fragment, probably from a letter, mentioning a certain Gaius, an investigation, people who are evasive, and the need to find others and exact (payment or something owed) from them. Only scattered phrases survive.

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The date is disputed: one palaeographic assessment places it in the second half of the 2nd century, another in the 3rd century. 'Procurere' is a nonstandard form, perhaps for procurare or procurrere.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Private Letter(?)). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.