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Torów iJBRAf Bi : Ci)* Szurn OF PHILOLOGY. EDITED BY W. ALDIS WRIGHT, M.A. INGRAM BY WAT ER, M.A. HENRY JACKSON, Litt. D. VOL. XXX. ILontion MACMILLAN AND CO. Ltd. (Eamtmtige : MACMILLAN AND BOWES. DEIGHTON, BELL AND CO, 1907 : Cambrtljge PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M.A. AT THE UNIYEKSITY PRESS. CONTENTS. No. LIX. PAGE The British Museum Papyrus of Isocrates llepl Elpijurj. H. L Bell 1 Some Emeudations of Propertius. H. W. Gakrod . 84 Elision in Hendecasyllables. H. W. Gakrod 90 The Alphabet of Ben Sira. C. Taylor . ... 95 Conjectural Emendations in the Silvae of Statius. D. A. Slater . 133 IV CONTENTS. No. LX. PAGE The MSS. of the Verrines. W. Peterson 161 Corruption of the Text of Seneca. John E. B. Mayor . 208 Stoica Frustula. A. C. Pearson 211 Aristophanes, Achamians 1093 and 1095. R. T. Elliott 223 On an Oracle in Procopius De Bello Gothico I 7. Henry Jackson 225 Corrections and Explanations of Martial. A. E. Housman . 229 A Note on the History of the Latin Hexameter. W. R. Hardie 266 On some Non-Metrical Arguments bearing on the Date of the Ciris. W. R. Hardie 280 Emendations and Explanations. W. G. Headlam .... 290 THE JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY. THE BRITISH MUSEUM PAPYRUS OF ISOCRATES Ulepi ¥,tpi]vr}<;. The papyrus containing the Uepl Elprjvi)<; of Isocrates (Brit. Mus. Pap. 132) was acquired by the British Museum in the year 1889 along with the Aristotelian treatise on the Constitution of Athens and other papyri. A collation of it appeared in 1891 in " Classical Texts from Papyri in the " British Museum ; but this was mor or less provisional, not, as a rule, indicating the mistakes in spelling and the minor corrections, which, while not of much importance as regards the authority of the papyrus, are often in themselves of interest. Moreover, no mere collation of a mutilated MS., however thorough, can quite supply the place of a transcript ; and while it may adeuately indicate the character of the MS. in the parts which have been preserved entire, it cannot fully show the authority of the whole ; for in regard to any par- ticular passage not noticed in the collation it must remain uncertain whether that passage has been passed over because it agrees with the genera tradition or because the portion of the MS. containing it is lost. To these considerations must be added the fact that sice the appearance of the collation referred to above a number of new fragments have been acuired and identified. They all belong to the first nineteen Journal of Philology. vol. xxx. 1 2 THE JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY. columns of the extant portion of the speech, and throw con- siderable light on not a few points which before were doubtful. For exampe, a considerable part of one column previously wholly lost has now been added to the existing remains. For all these reasons it has been thought advisable to publish a complete transcript of the papyrus as it at present exists. A description of it was given in the volume already a few points may be briefly repeated here. mentioned ; but The beginning of the speech, which is entirely lost, probably occupied four columns. The extant portion then may be taken to begin at the fifth columu, and from this point fragments at any rate of each column remain. The number of the existing columns is 44 ; but the first nineteen are much mutilated. The remainder, with the exception of large gaps in the 20th and 36th columns and smaller ones elsewhere, are preserved entire ; but they are in far worse condition than the earlier ones, and have suffered so much from rubbing as to be in places uite illegible. The writing in the earlier part of the papyrus differs considerably from that in the later part ; but it is pro- bable that only one scribe has been employed, who has begun with a regular uncial, but as he proceeds grows constantly looser in the formation of the letters, and ends with what is practically a semi-cursive hand. The columns in the earlier portion of the speech are narrower, and the characters larger, of letters in line the average number each being from 14 to 16 ; whereas in the later part, where the columns are broader, and the writing smaller and more compressed, it is nearer 28. The papyrus contains a considerable number of corrections, especially in the later part, where the scribe seems to have become careless. These corrections are of at least two classes, one proceeding from the scribe himself and the other from a corrector, who forms his letters more roughly and uses coarser ink. Some of the corrections however appear difficult to assign to either of these hands ; and in the notes to the preseut tran- script three classes have been distinguished, which are referred to respectively as Pap. 1 Pap.2 and Pap. 3 the original reading , , being known as Pap. But it is freuently difficult to decide with any certainty, especially as the character of the writing BRITISH MUSEUM PAPYRUS OF ISOCRATES. 3 and the state of preservation of the papyrus vary so greatly; and many of the attributions must be regarded as doubtful. Of the mistakes in spelling, the most common are the inter- change of e and ai and of 1 and et. These are freuently, but not always, corrected. It is worth noting that the first hand divides some of his words on a different principle from the corrector. Where a word containing er followed by another consonant and preceded by a vowel has to be divided between two lines, he writes the a at the end of the line and the other consonant at the beginning of the next (e.g. irapaa-\Keva^eiv, col. 37, line 45) ; but in almost all cases the corrector has altered it so as to end the line with the vowel and begin the next er 1 with . Accents and breathings are very rarely used, and of the few which do oceur some appear to be inserted by the corrector. Marks of punctuation are entirely absent, except that lines apparently intended as paragraphi oceur in a few places. Corrections or additions of omitted phrases are some- times written at the head or the foot of a column, and in these cases are usually referred to in the text by the words avm or T ica , as the case may be. The papyrus appears to date from the first century a.D. ; and the corrections do not appear to be much later than the original scribe. Dr E. Drerup, of Munich, who made an exhaustive collation 2 of the papyrus in 1901, before the acuisition of the new fragments, has very kindly lent his manuscript notes for com- parison with the present transcript ; and to this favour the fullest acknowledgements are due. His collation has afforded the most valuable assistance in the work of revision, though in some cases I have arrived at different conclusions as to the readings in doubtful passages. In conclusion, a few words of explanation must be given concerning the system followed in making this transcript. Words have been separated, but in other respects the papyrus 1 Both systems of division are 2 The results of this, embodying the legitimate, this being the one case in fresh evidence afforded by the present which the practice of scribes was not transcript, will appear in Dr Drerup's uniform ; cf. Kenyon, Palaeography of fortheoraing edition of Isocrates. Qreek Papyri, p. 32. 1—2 ; 4 THE JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY. has been followed closely. Corrections, except in the case of words written in the margin, where it is not always elear whether such words are intended as a correction or simply as an alternative reading, have been adopted in the text, the original reading being relegated to the notes. No accents or breathings have been inserted, except in cases where the original has them. In mutilated passages, only those gaps have been filled up in which the hiatus is smali and the reading fairly certain ; in other cases the size of the hiatus is indicated by dots, which are enclosed by brackets in cases where there is a hole in the papyrus, but have no brackets in cases where the papyrus is intact but illegible. It must not be supposed that the dots represent the exact number of letters which, frora the evidence of the printed text, appear to be missing. The system followed has been to take a rough average of the letters con- tained in each line of an hiatus, and represent these by dots whose number is constant so long as the hiatus continues of the same size. Any variation in the size of the hiatus is indicated by a variation in the number of dots, without refer- ence to the actual number of letters in the printed text. There is however one modification of this system, due to the natur of the papyrus. The columns usually tend to lean towards the right ; and in the case of an hiatus which oceurs at the beginning or the end of the lines, allowance has been made for this ; so that the same hiatus which in one line is indicated by five dots may lower down contain only two. As the writing not infreuently projects into the margin, it must be under- stood that dots placed at the end of a line can but indicate very roughly the number of missing letters. This is also the case in passages where only one or two letters of a line remain.