
| 865-870. Prose Fragments Find an explanation of the colors displayed in the Greek text here. |
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| 8.1 x 4.1 cm. | First century. |
| [868] is perhaps from a commentary. . . . [868] consists of parts of twelve lines, apparently from the top of a column, written on the verso, the recto being blank except in one corner where there are one or two broken letters. The script is a medium-sized rather irregular uncial, probably of the first century. The nature of the fragment is very obscure; the second person singular occurs in ll. 5 and 9, but it is difficult to believe that the lines belong to a connected oration or dialogue, and we are disposed to regard the fragment as a piece of a commentary, the blank spaces after αριστοις and ακουεις in ll. 6 and 9 in that case marking the division between the text and the scholia; cf. 853. The rare word ἀπόκαυμα (l. 4) is not found in writers of the classical period. | |
| ] εμε.οι τον ακρατον [ ]και οτι θραυστης σ[ ]ς δουλων ημετερων ]λοις αποκαυματα[ ]ς δικην τεισεις εμου[ ]ον τοι αριστοις α[ διακονειτωσαν πενι[ ]μενης γυναικες α[ ]μων ουκ ακουεις σ[ ]αθη.ω τραχηλον[ ]ισασε[ ]μινω[ |
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| 1. ]εμε[ν]οι is possible, though the ν would be rather cramped. But there may have been a blank space before οι cf. ll. 6 and 9. 2. οτι θραυστης : the division ο Τιθραυστης is less probable. |
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