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p.cair.zen.1.59060
Letter from Hierokles to Zenon via HGV-meta
The same text in other collections
Linked by Trismegistos ID
TM 718.
Each record below describes this same ancient text from a different angle.
- Letter from Hierokles to Zenon HGV-meta AlexandriaDate of reception: About 5th May, 257 BC
- Letter from Hierokles to Zenon APIS-papyrus Kharabet el Gerza (ancient PhiladeDate of reception: About 5th May, 257 BC
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
Ἱεροκλῆς Ζήνωνι χαίρειν. εἰ ἔρρωσαι, ἔχοι ἂν καλῶς· ὑγιαίνομεν δὲ καὶ ἡμεῖς. ἔγραψάς μοι περὶ Πύρρου, εἰ μὲν ἀκριβῶςἀκρειβῶς ἐπιστάμεθα, ἀλείφειν αὐτόν, εἰ δὲ μήμέ, μὴ συνβῆι ἀνήλω μά τε μάταιον προσπεσεῖν καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν γραμμάτων ἀποσπαθῆναιἀποσσπαθῆναι. περὶ μὲν οὖν τοῦ με ἐπίστασθαιἐπίσστασθαι οἱ θεοὶ μάλιστʼ ἂν εἰδείησανεἰδέησαν, Πτολεμαίωι δὲ φαίνεται, ὅσα κατʼ ἄνθρωπον, ὅτι τῶν νῦν ἀλειφομένωνἀλιφομένων, οἳ προειλήφασιν χρόνον πολύν, πολὺ κρείττων π καὶ σφόδρα ὀλίγου χρόνου πολὺ ὑπερέξει αὐτῶν· προσπορεύεται δὲ καὶ πρὸς ταῦτα καὶ πρὸς τὰ λοιπὰ μαθήματα· σὺν δὲ θεοῖς εἰπεῖν, ἐλπίζω σε στεφανωθήσεσθαι. ἀπόστειλον δὲ αὐτῶι ἐγλουστρίδα ὅτι τάχος, καὶ μάλιστα μὲν ἔστω τὸ δέρμα αἴγειοναἴγεοναἴγειον, εἰ δὲ μήμέ, μόσχειον λεπτόν, καὶ χιτῶνα καὶ ἱμάτιον καὶ τὸ στρωμάτιον καὶ περίστρωμα καὶ προσκεφάλαια καὶ τὸ μέλι. ἔγραψας δέ μοι θαυμάζεις εἰ μὴ κατέχω ὅτι τούτοις πᾶσι τέλος ἀκολουθεῖ. ἐπίσταμαι, ἀλλὰ σὺ ἱκανὸςεἱκανὸς εἶ διοικῶν ἵνα ἀποσταλῆι ὡς ἀσφαλέστατα. Ἱεροκλῆς περὶ Πύρρου. ἔτους κθ, Ξανδικοῦ γ, ἐνἐμ Μέμφει. Ζήνωνι.Connections
Found at
Alexandria
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 718 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.cair.zen;1;59060 tier-1
- HGV-Text 718 tier-1
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- Inherited across the Trismegistos spine — a Trismegistos ID names one ancient text, and papyrology splits that text's description across databases: the edition in one, the date and provenance in another, the physical papyrus in a third. Fields tagged via … on this page were read from a sibling record under the same TM number, not asserted by Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text.
- date — from APIS-papyrus, TM-Text 718 (see that record)
- find site — from HGV-meta, TM-Text 718 (see that record)
- find point — from HGV-meta, TM-Text 718 (see that record)