Book contents
- Frontmatter
- NOTE
- PREFACE
- Contents
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- GENERAL INTRODUCTION
- I THE LIFE OF BACCHYLIDES
- II THE PLACE OF BACCHYLIDES IN THE HISTORY OF GREEK LYRIC POETRY
- III CHARACTERISTICS OF BACCHYLIDES AS A POET
- IV DIALECT AND GRAMMAR
- V METRES
- VI THE PAPYRUS
- AUTOTYPE PLATES
- VII THE TEXT OF THE PAPYRUS
- INTRODUCTIONS TO THE ODES
- TEXT, NOTES, AND TRANSLATION
- FRAGMENTS
- APPENDIX
- VOCABULARY
- INDEX
- Plate section
VII - THE TEXT OF THE PAPYRUS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 May 2011
- Frontmatter
- NOTE
- PREFACE
- Contents
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- GENERAL INTRODUCTION
- I THE LIFE OF BACCHYLIDES
- II THE PLACE OF BACCHYLIDES IN THE HISTORY OF GREEK LYRIC POETRY
- III CHARACTERISTICS OF BACCHYLIDES AS A POET
- IV DIALECT AND GRAMMAR
- V METRES
- VI THE PAPYRUS
- AUTOTYPE PLATES
- VII THE TEXT OF THE PAPYRUS
- INTRODUCTIONS TO THE ODES
- TEXT, NOTES, AND TRANSLATION
- FRAGMENTS
- APPENDIX
- VOCABULARY
- INDEX
- Plate section
Summary
The following is the text as it stands when the smaller fragments, which had become detached from the continuous portions of the papyrus, have been fitted into their places. Hence this text contains, in many verses, some letters or words which appear only in the plates of fragments at the end of the Autotype Facsimile published in 1897, since, at that time, those fragments were still unplaced.
The object is to exhibit the text of the papyrus as it was left by the ancient correctors, before any modern hand had touched it.
1. A vertical line, ∣, denotes that the letters or words following it are supplied by a separate fragment. See, e.g., vv. 3—5.
2. A dot on the line denotes a lost letter.
3. A letter which has a dot under it is doubtful.
4. The sign] denotes that a lacuna precedes, and the sign [that a lacuna follows.
5. The marks, in a verse of which some part remains, denote the loss of a considerable but uncertain number of letters (as in III. 41). When those marks occupy a whole line, they denote that a verse is lost (as after x. 30).
6. Asterisks, * * * *, denote a loss of several verses.
7. The metrical divisions (strophe, antistrophe, epode) are shown in the margin. These indications make it easy to verify the use or omission in the MS. of paragraphus and coronis.
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- Bacchylides: The Poems and Fragments , pp. 147 - 183Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1905