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Top third of a 4th-century Roman letter, from Vitalis to Achillio.

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English: Top third of a surviving 4th-century Roman letter, from Vitalis to his dominus Achillius, from Franz Steffens' Lateinische Paläographie (1903), table 13. The letter is reported to be Latin papyrus "Argent 1", at Strassbourg.

Steffens relates one R. Reitzenstein bought it from an Egyptian merchant, and it is ultimately of unknown provenance. As governor Achillius is referred to as "praeses", Steffens says it must be dated to some time before 362 AD, as that year the governor of Phoenicia began being called "consularis" instead.

The following transcription adds word spacing and some modern punctuation.

Domino suo Achillio, Vitalis.

Cum in omnibus bonis benignitas tua sit praedita, tum
etiam scholasticos et maxime, qui a me cultore tuo hono-
rificentiae tuae traduntur, quod honeste respicere velit,
non dubito, domine praedicabilis. Quapropter Theofanen

[oriundum ex civitate Her]mupolitanorum provinciae...
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Source Steffens, Franz. 1903. Lateinische Paläographie.
Author Franz Steffens.

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