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PSI 20 = Trismegistos 59461 = LDAB 560



DCLP transcription: 59461 [xml]

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1[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩] coepisse(*) es[t aliqua] ẹṭịạ[m ⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
[rei ratio] hoc vero et novum et ridic[ulum]
[est quod hic] ṇọbis respondit cum ab eo [tabulas]
[postularemus] usq(ue) ad M. Terentium [C. Cassium]
5[consules confecis]se postea destitiss[e alio loco]
[huc cuiusmodi sit] considerabimus nu[nc nihil]
[ad me attinet h]orum enim tempo[rum in qui-]
[bus nunc versor] habeo tabulas ẹ[t tuas et patris]
[plurima signa p]ulcherrima pl[urimas tabu-]
10[las optimas deporta]sse te negar[e non potes]
[atq(ue) utinam nege]s [u]nuṃ ostende [in tabulis]
[aut tuis pat]ṛis emptum e(ss)e vi[cisti ⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
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1[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩ eliga]m quo facili[us ad Si-]
[ciliam possi]m aliquando quae mihi ho[c negotii]
[atq(ue) oneri]s inposuit pervenire.
[Oppidum est i]n Hellesponto Lamps[acum iudices in]
5[primis Asiae pr]ovinciae clarum et [nobile homines]
[autem i]psi Lampsaceni cum [summe in omnes cives]
[Romanos o]fficiosi tum prae[terea maxime]
[sedati et quie]ti prope praete[r ceteros ad sum-]
[mum Graecor]um otium poti[us quam ad ullam]
10[vim aut tu]ṃultum accoṃ[modati accedit ut]
[cum ist]ẹ a Gn(aeus) Dolabella e[fflagitasset ut se]
[ad reg]ẹm Nicomeden re[gemq(ue) Sadalam]

Apparatus


^ r.1. pap. : confecisse mss.

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Notes

  • 1.

    From the textual point of view, this line brings the correct lectio against all the medieval tradition. In fact, it can be read: coepisse e[st aliqua], while all the manuscripts bring confecisse est aliqua. Starting from Klotz 1923, coepisse was accepted in the text by some editors: Bellardi 1981 and the most recent Ricchieri 2020. Moreover, coepisse is indirectly confirmed as a good lesson from Ps. Asconius: “aliquando coepisse, correctio erroris in melius” .