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BERNARD QUARITCH, 15 Piccadilly, W. ; ASHER & CO., 13 Bedford St., Covent Garden, W.C. and henry FROWDE, Amen Corner, E.C. 1903 OXFORD HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY PREFACE In accordance with the chronological arrangement adopted by us in the publication of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, the present volume is devoted to second century texts, with the exception of the theo- logical and some of the classical papyri. The selection of documents here published in full or described probably represents less than half the second century material discovered in 1897, t>ut it is our intention in future volumes to deal with successive centuries up to the sixth, and then 10 return to the older papyri temporarily passed over. In the spring of this year excavations at Oxyrhynchus were resumed, and another large find of papyri was made, including a certain number of the late Ptolemaic period. These, together with a selection of the more important literary texts from the new find, will be published in Part IV, which we hope to issue vithin a year. In proportion to the space in the present volume occupied by the literary fragments our debt is the greater to Professor Blass, to whom is due the identification of several of the classical pieces, and to a large extent their reconstruction, together with many suggestions in the commentary. Mr. J. G. Smyly has rendered us much assistance, especially in connexion with questions of ancient mathematics ; the help \vhich we have received on special points from other scholars is acknowledged in connexion with the individual papyri. BERNARD P. GRENFELL. ARTHUR S. HUNT. Oxford, June, 1903. a 3 CONTENTS Preface List of Plates vii Table of Papyri viii Note on the Method of Publication' and List of Abbreviations . xi TEXTS L Theological (401-407) II. New Classical Fragments (408-444) 13 III. Fragments of Extant Classical Authors (445-463) 84 IV. I\Iiscell.«eous Literary Fragments (464-470) 123 V. Second Century Dccuments : (a) Official (471-476) 147 {) Returns () (477-483) i6i (f) Petitions (484-488) 1/4 ((/) Wills (489-495) . 187 ( Contracts (496-509) 208 (/) Receipts (510-518) 241 (g) Accounts (519-522) 254 () Private Correspondence (523-533) 260 VI. Coll.\tions of Homeric Fragments (534-573) . 274 VII. Descriptions of Second Century Documents (574-653) 279 INDICES I. New Literary Fragsients . 291 II. Emperors . 304 III. Months and Days 305 IV. Personal Names 305 V. Geographical 313 VI. Religion 316 CONTENTS VII PAGE VII. Official and Military Titles 317 VIII. Weights, Measures, and Coins 318 IX. Taxes 319 X. General Index of Greek Words 319 LIST OF PLATES I. 403 redo, 405, 406 verso II. 408, 409 (Col. iii) .... III. 409 (Col. ii) al the end. IV. 404(c) redo, 410 (Cols, i-ii), 445 (a) V. 412 VI. 420, 446, 447, 455 ... TABLE OF PAPYRI A.D. 401. Gospel of St. Matthew i-ii . 5th or 6th cent. 402. First Epistle of St. John iv Late 4th or 5th cent. 403. Apocalypse of Baruch xii-xiv (Plate I) Late 4th or 5th cent. 404. Shepherd of Hermas (Plate IV) . Late 3rd or 4th cent. 405-406. Theological Fragments (Plate 1) 3rd cent. 407. Christian Prayer Late 3rd or 4th cent. 408. Pindar Odes (Plate II) Early 2nd cent. 13 409. Menander (Plates II and III) 2nd cent. 17 410. Rhetorical Treatise (Plate IV) . 2nd cent. 26 411. Life of Alcibiades 5th or 6th cent. 31 412. Julius Africanus (Plate V) 225-265 36 413. Farce and IMirne 2nd cent. 41 414. Philosophical Fragment Late 2nd or early 3rd cent. 57 415. Isaeus ? 2nd cent. 59 4ie. Romance ? . 3rd cent. 60 417. Romance ? . Early 3rd cent. 61 418. Scholia on Iliad i . Late I St or early 2nd cent. 63 419. Euripides Archelmis . 2nd or 3rd cent. 65 420. Argument of Euripides' Ekcira (Plate VI) 3rd cent. 66 421-434. Poetical Fragments 2nd or 3rd cent. 67 435-444. Prose Fragments Late I St to early 4th cent. 76 445. Homer Iliad vi (Plate IV) . 2nd or 3rd cent. 84 446. Homer Iliad xiii (Plate VI) Late 2nd cent. 91 447. Homer Iliad xxiii (Plate VI) 2nd or early 3rd cent. 93 448. Homer Odyssey xxii and xxiii 3rd cent. 94 449. Euripides Andromache 3rd cent. lOI 450. Euripides Medea 3rd cent. 103 451. Thucydides ii . 3rd cent. 103 452. Thucydides iv . 2nd or 3rd cent. 104 453. Thucydides vi . Late ist or 2nd cent. 105 454. Plato Gorgias .... 2nd cent. 105 455. Plato Republic iii (Plate VI) 3rd cent. 109 456. Plato Republic iv . Late 2nd or early 3rd cent. no TABLE OF PAPYRI A.D. 457. Aeschines In Ciesiphonlem . 458. Aeschines De Falsa Legatione . 459. Demosthenes Contra Aristocratem 460. Demosthenes De Pace 461. Demosthenes De Corona . 462. Demosthenes De Corona . 463. Xenophon Anabasis vi 464. Astrological Epigrams 465. Astrological Calendar 466. Directions for Wrestling 467. Alchemistic Fragment 468. Medical Fragment 469. .Grammatical Rules . 470. Mathematical Treatise 471. Speech of an Advocate 472. Speech of an Advocate 473. Decree in Honour of a Gymnasiarch 474. Circular to OflScials . 475. Report of an Accident 476. Report of Mummifiers 477. Registration of an Ephebus 478. Selection of Boys {fnUpiait) 479. Census-Return .... 480. Census-Return .... 481. Property-Return 482. Property-Return 483. Application for Leave to Mortgage 484. Petition to the Strategus 485. Notification to the Strategus 486. Petitions to the Epistrategus and Praefect 487. Petition to the Epistrategus 488. Petition to the Epistrategus 489. Will of Dionysius 490. Will of Tastraton 491. Will of Eudaemon 492. Will of Thatres .... 493. Will of Pasion and Berenice 494. Will of Acusilaus 495. Will of Petosorapis . 496. Marriage Contract 497. Marriage Contract TABLE OF PAPYRI NOTE ON THE METHOD OF PUBLICATION AND LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS In the following pages the same general method is followed as in preceding volumes. Of the new literary texts a few are printed in a dual form, a recon- struction in modern style being appended to a literal transcript. In most other cases, as well as in the fragments of extant authors, the originals are reproduced except for division of words, addition of capital initials to proper names, expan- sion of abbreviations, and supplements, so far as possible, of lacunae. In 413, however, accentuation and punctuation have been introduced for the sake of greater clearness, and this system has also been adopted with the majority of the literary fragments in the 'miscellaneous' section (IV). 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. Non-literary texts are given in modern style only. Abbreviations and symbols are resolved, the latter being all of the common kind. Additions and corrections are usually incorporated in the text and their occurrence is recorded in the critical notes ; in the few instances where it was desirable to reproduce alterations in the original, a later hand is distinguished, as in the literary texts, by thick type. Faults of orthography, &c., are corrected in the critical notes wherever any difficulty could arise. Iota adscript is printed when so written, otherwise iota subscript is used. Square brackets indicate lacuna, brackets the resolution of a symbol or [ ] a round ( ) original double abbreviation, angular brackets { } a. mistaken omission in the ; square brackets letters within have been deleted in [[ J] mean that the them written, the original, braces { }, that the letters so enclosed, though actually should be omitted. 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 con- sidered doubtful. Heavy Arabic numerals refer to the texts of the Oxyrhynchus papyri published in this volume and in Parts I-II ; ordinary numerals to lines; small Roman numerals to columns. — xii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS The abbreviations used in referring to papyrological publications are prac- tically the same as those adopted by Wilcken in Archiv I. i. pp. 35-38, viz.: P. Anih. I and 11 = The Amherst Papyri (Greek), Vols. I and II, by B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt. Archiv = Archiv fur Papyrusforschung. B. G. U. = Aeg. Urkunden aus den Konigl. Museen zu Berlin, Griech. Urkunden. P. Brit. Mus. I and II = Catalogue of Greek Papyri in the British Museum, Vols. I and II, by F. G. Kenyon. C. P. R. = Corpus Papyrorum Raineri, Vol. I, by C. Wessely. P. Cairo = Greek Papyri in the Cairo Museum, Catalogue by B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt. P. Fay. Towrns = FayQm Towns and their Papyri, by B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, and D. G. Hogarth. P. Gen. = Les Papyrus de Geneve, by J. Nicole. P. Grenf. I and II = Greek Papyri, Series I, by B. P.