“If you won’t take me with you to Alexandria I won’t write you a letter or speak to you or say goodbye to you; and if you go to Alexandria I won’t take your hand nor ever greet you again. That it is what will happen if you won’t take me!”
by CryptographerKey2847
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good find, just difficult to fully read as some lines aren’t legible. is there a transciption somewhere?
“ΘΕΩΝ ΘΕΩΝΙ ΤΩΙ ΠΑΤΡΙ ΧΑΙΡΕΙΝ. (to theon, to my father theon, greetings)
ΚΑΛΩΣ ΕΠΟΙΗΣΑΣ ΟΥΚ ΑΠΕΣΤ (you did well to not…)
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mhthr mou eip… (my mother said….9
ΤΥΧΙ (best of luck)”
It’s sweet because thus is exactly what a kid would say today.
I love these posts. They remind us that humanity has the same feelings for generations and that kids are kids. It’s awesome because history can sometimes feel so removed from us currently