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Title Fragment with parts of few verses of Theognis' Elegy I
Work Theognis, Elegiae 1.917-933
Principal Edition BKT 9 124
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Previous Edition
  • - 84725. Funghi ed., Corpus dei Papiri filosofici greci e latini (CPF). Testi e lessico nei papiri di cultura greca e latina. Parte II.2: Sentenze di autori noti e ""chreiai"", (Firenze 2015). 355-357
  • - 63182. Roy Kotansky, "P. Berol. 21220 = Theognis, Elegiae I, 917-933.," ZPE, 96 (1993), pp. 1-5.
  • - 47898. Herwig Maehler, "Neue Hexameter-Fragmente auf Papyrus.," ZPE, 6 (1970), pp. 152-170. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20180253163-165 4
Catalog(s) MP3 01498.010
Fragments Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum P. 21220v
Support Material papyrus
Support Dimensions 3cm wide x 10.2cm high
Date 100 - 199
More from the period between 100 CE and 199 CE
Origin Fundort: Hermopolis (Hermopolites, Egypt) - 1906; Schreibort: Egypt
More from Fundort: Hermopolis (Hermopolites, Egypt) - 1906; Schreibort: Egypt
Form and Layout papyrus roll (columns: 0, pagination: 0)
Genre poetry lyric elegy
Culture literature
Religion classical
General Notes The verses of Theognis' Elegy I are on the verso of the papyrus. On the recto are a few faded words of a document.
Images berlpap.smb.museum/.../04419
Print Illustrations ZPE 6, pl.VIIk; BKT 9, pl.54
Availability © Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License .

Trismegistos: 62821 [source]

Publications BKT 9 124 (1996) = ZPE 6 (1970), p. 163-165 no. 4 (1970) = ZPE 96 (1993), p. 1-5 (1993) = Corpus dei papiri filosofici (CPF) 2.2 p. 355-357 [Thgn 2] (2015)
Inv. no. Berlin, Staatliche Museen P. 21220
Date AD 100 - 199
Language Greek
Provenance Egypt, U15 - Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein)[found]; Egypt, U15 - Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein)[written]

DCLP transcription: 62821 [xml]

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1[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]  ̣[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
[ἀλλὰ πρὶν ἐκτελέσαι κατέβη δόμον] Ἄι(*)δος [εἴσω,]
[χρήματα δ' ἀνθρώπων οὑπιτυχ]ὼ̣ν ἔλα[βεν,]
[ὥστ' ἐς ἄκαιρα πονεῖν καὶ μὴ δόμ]ε̣ν ὧι κ' [ἐθέλῃ τις](*).
5[εἶδον δ' ἄλλον, ὃς ᾗ γαστρὶ χαριζόμ]ε̣νος
[χρήματα μὲν διέτριψεν, ἔφη δ’·] “ὑφ̣άγωι̣ φ[ρένα τέρψας·”](*)
[πτωχεύει δὲ φίλους πάντας, ὅπ]ου τιν' ἴ(*)δ[ῃ.]
[οὕτω, Δημόκλεις, κατὰ χρήματ'] ἄριστον [ἁπάντων]
[τὴν δαπάνην θέσθαι καὶ μελ]έτην ἐχ̣[έμεν.]
10[οὔτε γὰρ ἂν προκαμὼν ἄλλῳ κ]άματον [μεταδοίης,]
[οὔτ' ἂν πτωχεύων δουλοσύν]ην τελέοις·
[οὐδ', εἰ γῆρας ἵκοιο, τὰ χρήματα] πάντ'’ ἀποδ[ραίη.]
[ἐν δὲ τοιῷδε γένει χρήμα]τ̣' ἄριστον ἔ[χειν.]
[εἰ μὲν γὰρ πλουτεῖς, πολλοὶ φ]ίλοι,˙ ἢν δ̣[ὲ πένηαι,]
15[παῦροι, κοὐκέθ' ὁμῶς αὐτ]ὸς ἀνὴρ̣ [ἀγαθός.]
15bis[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]ται˙
[φείδεσθαι μὲν ἄμεινον, ἐπ]ε̣ὶ̣ οὐδὲ θ[ανόντ' ἀποκλαίει]
[οὐδείς, ἢν μὴ ὁρᾷ χρήματα] λειπόμ[ενα.]
[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]  ̣ο̣[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
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Apparatus


^ 2. αϊδοσ papyrus
^ 4. or κ[ε θέλῃ τις]
^ 6. l. ὑπάγω, BKT : [ἔφ’ “ἡδ]υφάγωι φ[ρένα τέρψας·”] Kotansky
^ 7. ϊδ[η papyrus
^ 12. παντ’ papyrus
^ 14. ˙ papyrus
^ 15bis. ται˙ papyrus

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