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This incomplete and rather obscure letter is about a tax-collector who had been arrested and taken to the Arsinoite nome as though responsible to the authorities there. The writer was probably a tax-farmer at Memphis or in the Memphite nome, and the arrested man had been an empl…
πρὸς τὰ λο γεύματα τοῦ κζ ἔτους ἀπη γμένου δὲ εἰς τὸν Ἀρσινοίτην ὡς ὄντα Διοσκουρίδου ὑπηρέτην, ἀκούσας δὲ παρʼ ἡμῶν ὅτι οὐκ ἔστιν Διοσκουρίδου ὑπηρέτης, ἀλλὰ ἡμέτεροςἡμετρος ἦν λογευτής, νῦν δὲ Ἀθηνοδώρου τοῦ ἐγλα βόντος Μέμφιν, ἅμα δὲ καὶ μαινόμενοςμαινομενου ὅτι οὐκ ἠβού λετο …
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