Μάρκος Ἀντωνίᾳ καὶ Σαραπίωνι καὶ Κασσιανῷ τοῖς μου γονεῦσι πλεῖστα χαίρειν. τὸ προσκύνημα ὑ μῶν ποιῶ παρὰ τοῖς συννάοις θεοῖς· οὐ γὰρ εἰσχύει τις ἀναβῆναι προσκυνῆσαι διὰ τὴν γεναμένην μάχην τῶν ἀνωτεριτων πρὸς τοὺς στατιώτας. ἐτελεύτησαν στρατιῶται ἐκ τῶν σιγγλαρίων χωρὶς τῶν λεγιωναρίων καὶ τ[ο]υ̣ς ἠβωκατορες καὶ τῶν πεπληγώτων [καὶ] τῶν χαλαστῶ(ν). νῦν οὖν ὑμ[ῖ]ν γράφω ὅτ[ι] ἐν τάχει ὃ ποιεῖται πέμψατέ μοι τὸ ἐραιοῦν κολωβειν ἵ να ἐντός μου αὐτ[ὸ] εὕρω. καὶ ὁ φοινικὼν ποτισθήτω (τρὶς), ὡς ἐν το[ι]ούτῳ καιρῷ, καὶ πωλησάτω τὰς ἀλούρας ἁτοῦ πάλι, ὅσων ἐκεῖ ἐστιν, \ὁ/ Κασσιανό̣ς̣, καὶ ἐκπλεξάτω πάντα τὰ με̣τέωρα ἡμῶν, λαβέτω ἀποχὴν ὡς ἀνεγκλησίαν παρὰ τοῦ Θηβαίου. καὶ γινώσκειν ὑμᾶς θέλω [ὅ]τι οὐκ ἴσχυκα ἀπελθεῖν εἰς τὰ μέρη Κασσιανοῦ, οὐκ οἶδα εἰ ἐ[ξ]ῆλθε ἡ μήτηρ τῶν παιδίω(ν) αὐτοῦ ἢ οὔ· καὶ γὰρ ἐξερχόμενος Κα[σ]σιανὸς ἐνετίλατό μοι γράψαι αὐτῷ τὰ περὶ τῆς πολέως [ἐ]κ υνοῦ καὶ ὁ ἄρτος εἰ ἀναρπάζεται. καὶ ὡς ἐν τῇ κάστῃ ἐπιστολῇ σοι γράφω ἐκτινάξαι μου τὰ ἰατρικὰ βυβλία, ἐκτίναξον καὶ ἆρον αὐτὰ ἀπὸ τῆς θυρίδος ἃ κατέλιψα ἐξερχόμενος. καὶ ὁ Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ τυφλὸς ἦλθεν πρὸς ἐμαὶ λέ[γων μοι ὅ]τι ἐπαφιωκεν Σεραπιακὸς τῇ μητρί σου τὰς ἀλούρας. ἐὰ[ν οὖν ἦν(?)] ἐπα[φ]εὶς καὶ εἰδῇς τὴν τοῦ Ἀπολλω[νίου] τούτου τοῦ τυφλοῦ γνώμην ὅτι εὐγνώμων ἐστὶν, μ̣[ίσ]θωσον αὐτῷ αὐτὰς, ἐὰν μή σοι ἦν ἐκεῖνος, πειρῇς δοῦσα̣ [τὸ]ν σεῖτ[ο]ν. ἀσπά[ζ]ου Εὐδοκεί\α/ν τὴν τοῦ Ὀκταίου συνβίωσ[ι]ν μετὰ τ̣[ῶ]ν παι̣δ̣[ίω]ν καὶ Οὐαλέρι[ο]ν τὸν τοῦ Πασικᾶτος καὶ Ἀρσέ[νιον καὶ] πάντ[ας] καὶ κ̣[υ]ρίαν καὶ τὴν ἀδελφήν μου πάντας κατʼ ὄ̣[ν]ομα ἀ[σ]πάζου. ἀσπάζου καὶ Γαίωνα καὶ Οὐαλέριον τὸν τῆς πίσσης. ἐρρῶσσθαι ὑμᾶς εὔχομαι {ὑμᾶς}.
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Mark to Antonias and Sarapion and Cassian to my parents, greetings. I perform the worship of my gods among the fellow gods; for it is not possible for anyone to ascend to worship due to the battle that has occurred between the higher ranks and the soldiers. The soldiers have perished from the singlarian troops, apart from the legionaries and the youth and the wounded and the fallen. Now therefore I write to you that quickly whatever is done, send to me the favor to be cut off. Let the Phoenician be watered (three times), as in such a time, and let Cassian sell the fields of his again, as many as are there, and let him untie all our suspended matters, let him take a release as an exemption from the Theban. And I want you to know that I was not able to depart to the regions of Cassian, I do not know if the mother of his children has gone out or not; for when Cassian was going out, he commanded me to write to him about the city from a common source and whether the bread is being seized. And as in the letter in the castle, I write to you to shake off my medical books, shake them off and take them from the window which I left when going out. And Apollonius the blind came to me saying that Serapion has entrusted the fields to your mother. If therefore you were entrusted and know the opinion of this blind Apollonius that he is grateful, hire him, if that one was not there, you should try to give him the grain. Greet Eudokia, the wife of Octavius, with the children and Valerius the son of Pasikatos and Arsenios and all and the lady and my sister, greet all by name. Greet also Gaius and Valerius the one of the pitch. I wish you to be well.