Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
1996
Publication Title
Columbia Papyri X
Publisher Name
University of Michigan Press
Publisher Location
Ann Arbor, MI
Abstract
This urgent, secretive letter evidently refers to a planned financial coup. It is the first document to evidence a precautionary approach to the idios logos. The agitated writer's vocabulary, and a few rhetorical flourishes, also deserve notice.
Recommended Citation
Long, J. "252. Private Letter" and "265. Letter to a Tax-Farmer of the xenike praktoria." Columbia Papyri X, edited by Roger S. Bagnall and Dirk Obbink, American Studies in Papyrology 34, Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press 1996.
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Author Posting. © The American Society of Papyrologists, 1996. These chapters are posted here by permission of the American Society of Papyrologists for personal use, not for redistribution. These chapters were published in Columbia Papyri X, edited by Roger S. Bagnall and Dirk Obbink, American Studies in Papyrology 34, Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press 1996.