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Title P.Herc. 1520
Work Polystratus, De philosophia 1
Content Polystratus; peri philosophias 01, with title
Reference Edition 83407. Mario Capasso, "L'opera polistratea sulla filosofia," CronErcol, 6 (1976), pp. 81-84. Capasso Mario 1976 leer leer leer leer leer
Partial Edition 83415. Phillip Howard De Lacy, "Polystratus De philosophia I, col. III," CronErcol, 7 (1977), pp. 126. De Lacy Phillip Howard 1977
Previous Edition
  • - 83866. Herculanensium Voluminum quae supersunt. Collectio altera, (Napoli 1865). Napoli 1865
  • - 83799. Wilhelm Crönert, Kolotes und Menedemos, (Leipzig 1906). Crönert Wilhelm Leipzig 1906
Fragments P.Herc. 1520 fr.; P.Herc. 1520 col. 1; P.Herc. 1520 col. 2; P.Herc. 1520 col. 3; P.Herc. 1520 col. 4
Support Material papyrus
Date II - I v.Chr.
More from the period between 200 BCE and 1 BCE
Origin Fundort: Herculaneum (Campania, Italy); Schreibort: Italy ?; Pisones (Italy)
More from Fundort: Herculaneum (Campania, Italy); Schreibort: Italy ?; Pisones (Italy)
Form and Layout papyrus roll (columns: 4+)
Genre prose; philosophy
Culture literature
Religion classical
Images chartes.it/.../1544
Print Illustrations G. Cavallo, Libri scritture scribi a Ercolano, Naples 1983, pl. 14a
Availability © Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri and LDAB (Trismegistos). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License .

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Introduction

This papyrus has been digitally edited by Marta Antola, Eleni Avdoulou, Federico Giulio Corsi, Martina Delucchi, Giulio Di Basilio, Vikram Kumar, Takeshi Nakamura, Marianna Angela Nardi, Alexandra Peralta and Chiara Rover, revised by Holger Essler as part of Philologia philosophica Herbipolensis V .

Fragment 1

1[κενῶς]
1σπουδὴν ποιε[ῖ]ται ἂμ μὴ
2τὸ καθόλου κοινὸν ἁπά-
3σης ἀνοίας νόσημα ἐπὶ
4πάντων δυσ[α]ρεστoῦν̣
5[γε μ]εταπείπ[το]ν διὰ τ[ρ]ο̣-
6[πῆς, ἀ]νεστη[κ]ὼς [ἔ]χει να̣ι̣ .
7.... [τ]ὴν ἐναντίαν αὐ-
8.... αγακη τ̣ροπή, ἀ
9.... [ἀ]ναγκαίων καὶ τ . ν .
10..... νοντ .. ηωνα ...
11-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

Fragment 2

1[οὐ χρώμενοι]
1λογ[ι]σμοῖς ἕκα̣σ̣τα κ̣α[ὶ] πράτ-
2τουσιν καὶ πάσχουσιν
3οὐκ ἐπικρίν[ο]ντες ἀλ̣λ̣’ εἰ-
4κῆ[ι] καὶ ποιοῦντες καὶ λέ-
5γοντες, ὅ τι ἂν τύχω̣σιν
6εὑρ[ίσκ]ον̣[τ]αι καὶ παρ̣ὰ
7τὰς προειρημ̣έ̣νας [αἰ]τ[ί-]
8ας ὁμ̣οιοῦντες τού[τ]ωι
9[..]Ο[...]ΑΝΕ[ -2-3- ]ΑΛΛΕ[...]
10Κ[ -5-6- ]Υ[ -5-6- ]ΗΣ.[...]
11-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

Fragment 3

1ἀληθῶς τοῦ μὴ π[ρ]οσήκον-
2τος γείνεται λογισμοῦ·
3οὕτως γὰρ ὄψις καὶ ἄλλων
4μὲν πολλῶν καὶ τῶν πε-
5ρὶ ψυχὴν δὲ {ον} φιλοσοφί-
6α[ν] ἀληθιν[ὴ]ν̣ παρασκευά-
7ζει οὐ πλάνη[ν, καὶ] πᾶσαν
8ὁ φιλόσοφ̣[ος. ca.9.]ὤν
9-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

Fragment 4

1ψευδῆ. καθό̣λ̣ου δ̣’ο̣[..]ν
2ἐμπεί[π]τει περὶ φιλοσοφί-
3ας ἕκαστος. καὶ ἀπὸ τῆ[ς] αὐ-
4τῆς αἰτίας περὶ πάν[τα]
5μᾶλλον ἢ τὰ χρησι[μ]ώ-
6τατα τῶι βίωι σπεύδον-
7τες ὀ[σ]φρήσονται κα[ὶ] τ̣ῆ̣[ς]
8αὐτῶν ἁμα[ρ]τίας π[...]
9τὸ π[α]χύτατον ὡς ἀ[λη-]
10θῶς ε .. σινοντες αμ ..
11-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

Title subscriptio

1Πολυστράτου
2Περὶ φιλοσοφίας
3α

Commentary

  • 5.

    A full stop after λέγοντες would break apart a quite common phraseology, often found at the end of a period: λέγω (or any verbum dicendi) + ὅ τι ἄν τύχωσιν, “speaking gibberish”, “talking nonsense” (e.g. Isocr., Pan. (Or. 12) 74,6: καὶ λέγουσιν ὅ τι ἂν τύχωσιν·; 239, 5 μὴ δόξῃς ὅμοιος εἶναι τοῖς λέγουσιν ὅ τι ἂν τύχωσιν). Moreover, choosing to relate ὅ τι ἄν τύχωσιν to εὐρίσκονται would create a redundant and repetitive phraseology “they end up finding in a slavish way the first things that happen to appear in front of them”.

  • 1.

    Capasso supplies δ’οὖν, but points out that between δο and ν there could be two letters. He suggests δ’ὅταν or δ’ὅθεν in his apparatus. While the traces on the papyrus could point to read δ’ὅταν, such a reading of the text does not seem satisfactory. In order to make the text intelligible, some kind of complement of the verb ἐμπίπτω (l. 2) seems to be necessary. Capasso suggests to interpret εἰϲ] ψευδῆ as the complement of the verb, but then δ’ in third position would be problematic.

History

  • 2018-04-20T11:50:06+02:00 [VincenzoDamiani]: Finalized -
  • 2018-04-20T11:36:13+02:00 [VincenzoDamiani]: Vote - Accept-Straight-to-Finalization - Fr. 1 5: no line break before [γε] 6: delete circumflex in [ἔ]χεῖ Fr. 2 1. λογ[ι]σμοῖς 4. κῆ[ι] (iota without underdot) 5. τύχω̣σιν 6. Νo underdot under ι in [τ]αι 7. Underdot under second ε in προειρημένας Fr. 4 1: καθό̣λ̣ου 4: τῆς instead of ῆς
  • 2018-04-18T15:47:59+02:00 [HolgerEssler]: Submit - Text entered on the base of reference edition. Translation and commentary by contributors.

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