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Letter concerning an abduction

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · uninventoried · Early 6th century · Oxyrhynchus

After an interesting introduction in which the writer hints disapproval of his correspondent's epistolary methods, his main topic is a case of abduction, the victim of which was a certain Macaria. Apparently the case was to be the subject of legal proceedings.

p.oxy.16.1837

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · frühes VI · Oxyrhynchos

οὐδεὶς θέλωνθέλον ἐγκαλέσαιἐγκαλήσαι ἢ μέμψασθαί τινων ἐν προοιμίοιςπρουμίοις τῆς ἐπιστολῆς γράφειγράφι ἵνα μὴ ὁ ἀναγινώσκωνἀναγινόσκον σιανθῇ καὶ μὴ ἀναγνώσῃἀναγνώσι τὴν ἐπιστολήν, ὑμεῖςὑμῖς δὲ τάξιν διαλαλίας τὸ προοίμιονπρούμιον ἐγράψατεἐγράψεται. πάντα δὲ τὰ κελευσθέντα ἡμῖν …