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A private letter from Cornelius, a soldier, to his 'brother' Apollos at Bakchias, sending greetings to him and his children and asking him to hand over something or someone called 'the little one' to the letter carrier so it can be brought down to Cornelius. It is dated to the reign of Trajan, in the Arsinoite nome.
The Greek here is ungrammatical and partly damaged, so what 'the little one' (feminine) refers to, perhaps a girl, a slave or an object, is uncertain. 'Brother' may be a term of friendship rather than kinship.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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] Κορνήλιος Ἀπολλῶτι τῶι ἀδελφῷ πλεῖστα χαίρειν. πρὸ μὲν πάντων ἀναγκαῖον διʼ ἐπιστολῆς σε ἀσπάσεσθαι καὶ τὰ ἀβάσκαντά σου παιδία. ἐρωτῶ σε ἵνα δῷς τῷ κομίζοντί σοι τὸ ἐπιστόλιον εἰ ἔστιν Ἑρμῆς Νεστοποικίτης. τὴν μικρὰν ἐμοὶ αὐτὴν κατενέγκῃ ἧδε αὐτῷ […]… Ἑρμῆτι τῷ παρὰ Κορνηλίῳ…
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