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Title Anthology including Cercidas and Epictetus
Works
  • Cercidas, Choliambi
  • Epictetus, Orationes 4.1.136-138
study
  • - 45247. Robert Renehan, "The Collectanea Alexandrina. Selected Passages.," HSCP, 68 (1964), pp. 375-388. 381-382
  • - 95823. Alfred Körte, "Literarische Texte mit Ausschluß der christlichen," ArchPF, 5 (1913), pp. 531-572. 556
  • - 95822. Alfred D. Knox, The first Greek anthologist: with notes on some choliambic fragments, (Cambridge 1923).
catalogue 95819. Charles H. Oldfather, The Greek Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt: a study in the history of civilization, (Madison 1923). 976
Reference Edition 95821. John U. Powell, Collectanea Alexandrina; reliquiae minores poetarum graecorum aetatis ptolemaicae, 323-146 A.C., epicorum, elegiacorum, lyricorum, ethicorum. Cum epimetris et indice nominum, (Oxford 1925). 17 213-214
Partial Edition
  • - 95284. Mohamed Gaber El-Maghrabi and Cornelia Römer eds., Texts from the "Archive" of Socrates, the Tax Collector, and Other Contexts at Karanis (P. Cair. Mich. II), (Berlin - Boston 2015). 11
  • - 95820. Gustav A. Gerhard, Phoinix von Kolophon; Texte und Untersuchungen, (Leipzig 1909). b 7-10
Readings
  • - 83787. Herbert John Mansfield Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum, (London 1927). 58
  • - 95818. H. J. M. Milne, "Readings from papyri," CR, 36 (1922), pp. 165-166.
Previous Edition 95197. Frederic Georges Kenyon and Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum 2, (London 1898). https://archive.org/details/cu31924022695096https://archive.org/stream/greekpapyriinbri02brit#page/n5/mode/2up
Catalog(s) MP3 00238.000
Fragments London, British Library Pap 155 Vo; Cairo, Egyptian Museum P. Mich. 4829
Support Material papyrus
Date 200 - 299
More from the period between 200 CE and 299 CE
Origin Fundort: Karanis (= Kom Aushim) (Arsinoites, Egypt) - 1926; Schreibort: Egypt
More from Fundort: Karanis (= Kom Aushim) (Arsinoites, Egypt) - 1926; Schreibort: Egypt
Form and Layout papyrus roll (columns: 3, pagination: 0)
Genre poetry; prose; philosophy; lyric
Culture literature
Religion classical
General Notes Michigan accession number 26-B12L-A
Images bl.uk/.../Papyrus_155; quod.lib.umich.edu/.../x-18472; access.bl.uk/.../vdc_100147465689.0x000001
Print Illustrations Liège; P. Cairo Mich. 2, p.47
Availability © Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License .

Trismegistos: 59438 [source]

Publications P. Lond. 2 p. XIV no. 155 Vo (1898) + P. Lond. Lit. 58 (1927) + P. Cairo Mich. 2 11 (2015)
Inv. no. London, British Library Pap 155 Vo
Reuse Type other text(s) on the same object: 59973
Date AD 175 - 275
Language Greek
Provenance Egypt, 00a - Karanis (Kom Aushim)[found]; Egypt[written]

DCLP transcription: 59438 [xml]

PLondLit-58

column i
[- ca.16 -]δεισου[  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣ ἀνθρ]ώποις
[- ca.12 -]ι κ̣α̣τ̣ε̣ῖ̣δε[  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣ ἀν]θρώπων
[- ca.12 -]σας̣ οὓς κατ̣[εῖδεν] ἀνθρώπου̣ς
[- ca.9 - Πάρ]νε, πρός [σ]ε χρ[ήσο]μαι πάσῃ
5[- ca.12 -] πο[ιή]μ̣ατ̣’ ο̣ὐ̣ μ̣άτ[ην] ἀκούοντα
[- ca.12 -]  ̣  ̣  ̣εσω  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣ ἀνθρώπων
[- ca.21 -]α̣λ̣[  ̣  ̣  ̣] ἐν κόμῃ κεῖται
[- ca.15 -]  ̣χειρες ὥ[σπ]ερ Ἅρπυιαι,
[- ca.12 -]ον κέρδος ἐ̣κ̣ λίθου παντ̣ός,
10[- ca.9 - ἕ]καστος ἔνθεν ἁρπάξῃ
[  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣ κυ]βιστᾷ κἠπινήχεται πᾶς τις
[  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣] ἑταῖρον καὶ κ̣α̣σ̣ίγνη[το]ν κα̣[ὶ] ὦρα
[  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣ ἑ]α̣υ̣τ̣ο̣ῦ̣ τὴν τρισοιζυρὴν ψυχήν.
[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]  ̣ε  ̣[ ἡ] θ̣ά̣[λασσα μὲ]ν πεζῇ
15[- ca.11 - ἀν]θ̣ρώποι[σιν ἡ δὲ] γῆ πλωτῇ
[  ̣  ̣  ̣ δ]ὲ περιφέρουσι τοῦτο τὸ ῥῆμα·
'[κέρδαιν’,] ἑταῖρε, κἢν θέρευς κἢν χειμῶνος·
[ἁπάντοθε]ν κέρδαινε, μηθὲν αἰσχύνου.'
[- ca.12 -]δου τοῦτ’ ὀνειδιεῖταί̣ σ̣οι
20'[- ca.12 -]  ̣ τὴν χεῖρ’, ὅκου τι δεῖ λαβεῖν,' column ii
'ὅκου [δ]ὲ δοῦν̣[αι] μ̣η̣δ̣ό̣λως φόρει χεῖρα',
ἐροῦσι πολλοί· 'π[ο]λλὰ σαυτὸν ἀσπάζου·
ἐπὴν ἔχῃς τι, πάντα σοι φίλων πλήρη,
πλουτοῦντα γάρ σε̣ χοἰ θεοὶ φιλ̣ή̣σουσι,
25ἐὰν <δὲ> μὴ ’χῃς μηθέν, οὐδὲ κηδεσταί,
π̣ένητα δ’ ὄντα χἠ τεκοῦσα μεισήσει.'
Ἐγ̣ὼ μὲ[ν οὖν,] ἀῗτα, καὶ καταρῶμαι
τοῖς νῦν βίοις, καὶ πάντας ἀνθρώπους μισῶ
τοὺς ζῶντας οὕτω, καὶ ἔτι μᾶλλον μισήσω̣,
30ἀνέστροφαν γὰρ τὴν̣ ζόην̣ ἡμῶ̣ν̣ οὗτοι̣.
[ἦ] γὰρ π[άρο]ιθ̣ε̣ν ἦν δ[  ̣]α̣ χρ[  ̣  ̣]υν ἐστὶν σεμνὴ
[δ]ικα[ιό]τ̣ης ᾤ[χηκεν] ἔ[νθ]ε[ν ο]ὐδ’ ἥξει·
[ἀ]πιστίη ζῇ π̣α̣[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
ἴσχυκεν ἡ̣ ἀ̣ν̣α̣ί̣δ̣ε̣ι̣α̣ τ̣οῦ [Δ]ιὸς μεῖζον· PCairMich-2-11

column i
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1[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]  ̣  ̣[  ̣  ̣  ̣]  ̣[  ̣] column ii
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
1[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]  ̣  ̣[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]  ̣  ̣[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩ ἐπ]α̣κολουθε[ῖς; π]ῶ[ς οὗν νῦν]
[σκέπτεσ]θ̣αι λέγεις, ε[ἰ τὰ] οὐ[δέτερα τῶν]
[κακῶν] φ̣ευκτότερ[α; ἀλ]λ’ οὐ̣[κ ἔχεις ταῦ-]
5[τα τὰ δό]γ̣ματ̣α̣, ἀ̣λ̣λ̣[ὰ φα]ί̣ν[εταί σοι οὔτε]
[ταῦτα οὔ]τε ἕτερα·· ἀ̣λλ̣[ὰ] μέγ̣[ιστα κακά,]
[οὔτ’ ἐκεῖ]να κακά·· ἀλ[λ’] ο̣[ὐ]δὲ[ν πρὸς ἡμᾶς.]
οὕ̣[τως] γὰρ ἐξ ἀρχῆς̣ ε[ἴ]θι̣[σας σεαυτόν·]
——
πο̣[ῦ εἰ]μι̣;· ἐν σχολῇ.· καὶ ἀκ[ούουσι - ca.4 -]
10λέ̣[γω] μὲν οὖν τὰ τῶν φι̣[λοσόφων.]
——
ἀ̣λ̣[λ’ ἐ]ξελήλυθα τῆς σχολῆ̣[ς - ca.9 -]
  ̣  ̣[  ̣  ̣]  ̣  ̣· ἆρον τὰ τῶν σχολασ̣[τικῶν καὶ τῶν]
μω̣ρ̣ῶ̣ν. ((upward-pointing-arrowhead)) το̣ιγαρο̣ῦν οὕτως̣ [⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]

Apparatus


^ PCairMich-2-11.ii.6. · papyrus
^ PCairMich-2-11.ii.7. · papyrus
^ PCairMich-2-11.ii.9. · papyrus
^ PCairMich-2-11.ii.12. · papyrus

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