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Platon writes that the youth called Demetrios who is delivering the letter has a father living in the Fayoum and would like to find some work there himself and he asks Zenon to give him employment of some sort and to look after him. He adds that he has sent Zenon two artabs of c…
Πλάτων Ζήνωνι χαίρειν. Δημητρίου τοῦ ἀποδιδόντος σοι τὴν ἐπιστολήν, ὡς ἔοικεν, ὁ πατὴρ τυγχάνει τὰς διατριβὰς ποιούμενος ἐν τῶι Ἀρσινοίτηι νομῶι. βούλεται οὖν καὶ αὐτὸς ὁ νεανίσκος ἐκεῖ πράττειν τι. πυνθανόμενος δέ σε εἶναι ἐπιεικῆ, ἠξίωσάν τινές με τῶν φίλων γράψαι σοι περὶ αὐτο…
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