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The Oxyrhynchus Papyri LIBRARY Brigham Young University St^'- Ace. >5 No. ^y THE OXYRHYNCHUS PAPYRI PART XI GRENFELL AND HUNT EGYPT EXPLORATION FUND GRAECO-ROMAN BRANCH THE OXYRHYNCHUS PAPYRI PART XI EDITED WITH TRANSLATIONS AND NOTES BY BERNARD P. GRENFELL, D.Litt. FELLOW OF queen's COLLEGE, OXFORD; FELLOW OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY ARTHUR S. HUNT, D.Litt. PROFESSOR OF PAPYROLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, AND FELLOW OF QUEEN'S COLLEGE FELLOW OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY WITH SEVEN PLATES LONDON SOLD AT The Offices of the EGYPT EXPLORATION FUND, 37 Great Russell Street, W.C. AND 527 Tremont Temple, Boston, Mass., U.S.A. KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & CO., 68-74 Carter Lane, E.C. BERNARD QUARITCH, 11 Grafton Street, New Bond Street, W. ASHER 8c CO., 14 Bedford Street, Covent Garden, W.C. C. F. CLAY, Fetter Lane, E.C, and 100 Princes Street, Edinburgh ; and HUMPHREY MILFORD, Amen Corner, E.C., and 29-35 West 32ND Street, New York, U.S.A. 1915 All rights reserved BRIGHAM YOUK'G UNIVERSITY LIBRARY fiBQVA UTAH PRINTED IN ENGLAND AT THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS PREFACE The present volume, like Part V, consists of literary pieces, with the exception of the Calendar of Church Services at Oxyrhynchus (1357), which on account of its special interest is included with the theological texts. The papyri of Antiphon Sophistes (1384) and Thucydides (1376) belong to the first of the large literary finds in 1906, the lyric pieces and one of the Hesiod fragments (1359) to the second, of which much still remains to be published. The invocation of I sis (1380) and praise of Imouthes-Asclepius (1381) were found in 1903, the Byzantine classical pieces in 1897, ^^e rest chiefly in 1905-6. In editing the new classical fragments, especially the poetical pieces (1358-1363), we have received valuable suggestions and criticisms from Prof. Gilbert Murray. The assistance afforded by Mr. T. W. Allen, F. E. Brightman, Mr. W. E. Crum, Dr. J. V. Bartlet, the Rev. E. Mr. F. LI. Griffith, Mr. E. Lobel, Mr. J. G. Milne, the Rev. M. Walker, and Prof. U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff is acknowledged in connexion with the individual papyri. Part XII, consisting of documents of the late Ptolemaic, Roman, and early Byzantine periods, is in an advanced state of preparation, and we hope to issue it earty in 191 6. BERNARD P. GRENFELL. ARTHUR S. HUNT. Queen's College, Oxford, June, 1915. CONTENTS PAGE Preface V List of Plates viii Table of Papyri ix Note on the Method of Publication and List of Abbreviations xi TEXTS I. Theological Fragments (1351-1357) IL New Classical Texts (1358-1368) 44 IIL Extant Classical Authors (1369-1379) 121 IV. Graeco-Egyptian Literary Papyri (1380-1384) ipo V. Homer Fragments (1385-1398) 242 VL Minor Classical Fragments (1399-1404) APPENDIX List of Oxyrhynchus and Hibeh Papyri Distributed 248 INDICES I. New Classical Fragments 253 262 II. Personal Names III. Geographical 263 IV. Religion 264 V. General Index of Greek Words 267 VI. Subjects Discussed in the Introductions and Notes . • -273 VII. Passages Discussed 276 LIST OF PLATES I. recto, 1351 1355 recto, 1357 Col. i II. 1358 Fr. 2, 1399 III. 1359 Frs. 2, 4, 1361 Frs. i, 4, 1376 Col. iv . [ IV. 1362 Fr. 1, Col. i ai the end. V. 1364 Fr. I, Cols, v-vii .....".* VI. 1363, 1365, 1379 . Vir. Frs. 1-2 1369 recto, 1370 Frs. 3 recto, 9 verso, 1371 recto TABLE OF PAPYRI {An asterisk denotes texts not printed in full) DATE PAGE 1351. Leviticus xxvii (on vellum ; Plate I) 4th cent. I 1352. Psalms Ixxxii, Ixxxiii (on vellum) Early 4th cent. 2 1353. First Epistle of Peter (on vellum) 4th cent. 5 1354. Epistle to the Romans i 6 th or 7 th cent. 6 1355. Epistle to the Romans viii (Plate I) 3rd cent. 9 1356. Philo 3rd cent. 12 of I 1357. Calendar Church Services (Plate 535-6 . 19 1358. Hesiod, Catalogue iii (Plate II) . 3rd cent. 44 1359. Hesiod, Catalogue (Plate III) Early 3rd cent. 52 1360. Alcaeus Late 2nd cent. 56 1361. Bacchylides, Scolia (Plate III) ist cent. 65 1362. Callimachus, Aetia (Plate IV) I St cent. 83 1363. Callimachus, Iambi (Plate VI) 2nd or early 3rd cent. 90 1364. Antiphon Sophistes, i (Plate V) Early 3rd cent. 92 1365. History of Sicyon (Plate VI) 3rd cent. 104 1366. Fragment of an Attic Orator Late 3rd cent. III 1367. Heraclides Lembus, Epitome of Hermippus, ' ..... Late 2nd cent. 113 1368. Romance 3rd cent. 119 1369. Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus (Plate VII) 5th cent. 121 1370. Euripides, Medea and Orestes (Plate VII) 5th cent. 126 1371. Aristophanes, Clouds with scholia (Plate VII) 5th cent. 134 1372. Aristophanes, Frogs . 5th cent. 138 1373. Aristophanes, Peace and Knights 5th cent. 142 1374. Aristophanes, Wasps . 5th cent. 145 1375. Herodotus vii .... Early 2nd cent 154 1376. Thucydides vii (Plate III) . Late 2nd or early 3rd cent. 155 1377. Demosthenes, Be Corona . Late ist cent. b. c 186 TABLE OF PAPYRI — NOTE ON THE METHOD OF PUBLICATION AND LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS The general method followed in this volume is the same as that in Parts I-X. Of the new classical texts, 1360-2 are printed in a dual form, a literal transcript being accompanied by a reconstruction in modern style. In the others, and in the fragments of extant authors, the originals are reproduced except for separation of words, capital initials in proper names, expansion of abbreviations, and supplements of lacunae. Additions or corrections by the same hand as the body of the text are in small thin type, those by a different hand in thick type. The Graeco-Egyptian literary texts and 1357, which is a non-literary document, are given in modern form with accentuation and punctuation. Abbrevia- tions and symbols are resolved ; additions and corrections are incorporated in the text, their occurrence being recorded in the critical apparatus, where also faults of orthography, &c., are corrected if they seemed likely to give rise to any difficulty. Iota adscript has been printed when so written, otherwise iota subscript is employed. Square brackets indicate a lacuna, round [ ] brackets ( ) the resolution of a symbol or abbreviation, angular brackets ( ) a mistaken omission in the original, braces { } a superfluous letter or letters, double square brackets a deletion in the original. Dots placed within brackets represent [[ ]] the approximate number of letters lost or deleted ; dots outside brackets indicate mutilated or otherwise illegible letters. Letters with dots underneath them are to be considered doubtful. Heavy Arabic numerals refer to the texts of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri in this volume and Parts I-X, ordinary numerals to lines, small Roman numerals to columns. The abbreviations used in referring to papyrological publications are practically those adopted in the Archiv fiir Papyrusforschimg^ viz. : P. Amh. = The Amherst Papyri (Greek), Vols. I-II, by B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt. Archiv = Archiv fiir Papyrusforschung. B. G. U. = Aeg. Urkunden aus den K. Museen zu Berlin, Griechische Urkunden. P. Brit. Mus. = Greek Papyri in British Vols. F. G. Kenyon the Museum, -, by ; Vol. Ill, by F. G. Kenyon and H. I. Bell ; Vol. IV, by H. I. Bell. xii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS C. P. R. = Corpus Papyrorum Raineri, Vol. I, by C. Wessely. P. Cairo Maspero = Catalogue des Antiquites egyptiennes du Musee du Caire, Papyrus grecs d'epoque byzantine, by J. Maspero. P. Fay. = Fayum Towns and their Papyri, by B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, and D. G. Hogarth. P. Flor. = Papiri Fiorentini, Vols. I and HI, by G. Vitelli ; Vol. , by D. Comparetti. P. Giessen = Griechische Papyri zu Giessen, Vol. I, by E. Kornemann, O. Eger, and P. M. Meyer. P. Grenf. = Greek Papyri, Series I, by B. P. Grenfell; Series , by B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt. P. Hamburg = Griech. Papyrusurkunden der Hamburgischen Stadtbibliothek, by P. M. Meyer. P. Hibeh = The Hibeh Papyri, Part I, by B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt. P. Klein. Form. = Griech. Papyrusurkunden kleineren Formats, Studien z. Palaeogr. und Papyruskunde iii, viii, by C. Wessely. P. Leipzig = Griechische Urkunden der Papyrussammlung zu Leipzig, Vol. I, by L. Mitteis. P. Leyden = Papj^ri Graeci Musei Antiquarii Publici Lugduni-Batavi, by C. Leemanns. P. Oxy. = The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Parts I-VI and X, by B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt ; Parts VH-IX, by A. S. Hunt. P. Par. — Les Papyrus grecs du Musee du Louvre, Notices et Extraiis, t. xviii. 3, by W. Brunei de Presle and E. Egger. P. Petrie The Flinders Petrie Papyri, Parts I-II, = by J. P. Mahafify ; Part HI, by J. P. Mahaffy and J. G. Smyly. P. Reinach = Papyrus grecs et demotiques, by T, Reinach. P. Rev. Laws = The Revenue Laws of Ptolemy Philadelphus, by B. P. Grenfell, with an introduction by J. P. Mahafify. P. Ryl. = Catalogue of the Greek Papyri in the Rylands Library, Vol. I, by A. S. Hunt ; Vol. , by J. de M. Johnson, V. Martin, and A. S. Hunt. P. Ryl. Coptic = Catalogue of the Coptic Papyri, by W. E. Crum. P. S. L = Papiri della Societa Italiana, Vols. -, by G. Vitelli and others. P. Stud. Pal. = Studien zur Palaeographie und Papyruskunde, by C. Wessely. P. Tebt. = The Tebtunis Papyri, Part I, by B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, and G. Smyly Part P. J. ; , by B. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, and E. J. Goodspeed. 2 ; . THEOLOGICAL FRAGMENTS 1351. Leviticus . 2•6 5*9 cm. Fourth century. Plate I (recto). This small fragment comes from a vellum leaf which contained double columns and when complete must have been nearly square in shape. Tt is inscribed with upright uncials of medium size and the regular Biblical type though somewhat heavy, they are well formed and probably not later than the fourth century.
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