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Title TM 65632
Content fragment on opthalmology
Fragments Oxford, Sackler Library, Papyrology Rooms EES number unknown
Support Material papyrus
Date II v. Chr.
More from the period between 200 BCE and 101 BCE
Origin Found: Krokodilopolis (Arsinoites, Egypt); written: Arsinoites (Egypt)
More from Found: Krokodilopolis (Arsinoites, Egypt); written: Arsinoites (Egypt)
Form and Layout papyrus roll (columns: 2, pagination: 0)
Genre prose; medicine; dialogue
Culture science
Print Illustrations Cavallo-Maehler, Hellenistic Bookhands, 2008, no. 41
Availability © Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Trismegistos: 65632 [source]

Publications Marganne, L'ophtalmologie p. 97-103 (1994) = Classical Quarterly 43 (1949), p. 3-4 no. 2 (1949)
Inv. no. Oxford, Sackler Library, Papyrology Rooms EES number unknown
Date BC 199 - 100
Language Greek
Provenance Egypt, 00 - Arsinoites (Fayum)[written]; Egypt, 00d - Krokodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayum)[found]

Introduction

Medical treatise. The fragment (18.4 x 16.7 cm) contains the remains of two columns on the recto; verso is blank. No margin survives. The subject treated in the left-hand column, and probably in the right-hand column to the paragraphos at l. 8, appears to be the consequences of a severe injury to the eye: at col. I, ll. 1-7 the author describes an unexpected situation in which a post-traumatic fever suddenly causes the patient’s death, while the feverish condition normally induces only γλαυκώμα, i.e. the grey-blue coloring of the pupil or the cornea (ll. 12-17); the final part of this theory is perhaps contained in the lower portion of col. I and in the first seven lines of col. II, but the text seems here to be unrecoverable. Finally, at col. II l. 8 a new chapter begins, but again we cannot ascertain the contents of the section. The text is written in an upright medium-sized book hand assignable to the 2nd cent. B.C.

DCLP transcription: 65632 [xml]

column i
[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩πυρετὸν]
συνεχῆ ἀν[ὰ   ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣ ἡ]μέρας(*)
τελευτῶντ[α  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣] πρὸς τῶι
παράλογόν τ̣[ινα θ]άνατ[ο]ν πε-
ποη̣κ̣έναι(*), παρ̣[αχρῆ]μα κατὰ̣
5[τ]ὴ̣ν̣ τελευτὴν [πε]ποηκέναι(*)·
[τὸ δὲ σ]ύνολον, ὁ̣ [μὴ] τοσοῦτος
[ὥσθ’ οὕ]τ̣ως θανα̣[τοῦ]ν, ὡς τῶν
ὑ̣[γ]ρ̣ῶν ἐν αὐτῶ[ι συν]τριβέν-
των καὶ τοῦ τραύματος συν-
10θ̣λ̣α[σ]{ι}θέντος, γλαύκωσιν εἴω-
θεν ποιεῖν· τῶν γὰρ γλαυκω-
μάτων ὅταν τὰ(*) περὶ τὴν
[κό]ρ̣αν(*) ὑγρὸν φλεγματῶδές
[τε] ὑπάρξει(*), καὶ τοῦτο ψῦξιν
15[ποήσηι], γινομένων (διὸ καὶ τῆι
[χρόαι ἐστ]ὶν ὑαλῶδες καὶ τῆ[ι]
[συστάσε]ι, τ̣ῶ̣ι μὴ κατεργά-
[ζεσ]θ̣α̣ι̣ δ̣ι̣’ ὧ̣ν̣ χ  ̣  ̣  ̣ν̣η̣  ̣κ  ̣ρ̣  ̣
[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]ε ῥ̣εύματο̣[ς](*) [⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
20[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]π̣η̣ρ̣  ̣τ[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]θ̣ο̣  ̣[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩] column ii
πρ̣ώ̣του τ̣[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
η ἐ̣στιν   ̣[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
τηι κατεργα[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
δὲ καὶ τῶν μ[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
5[  ̣  ̣] τῶν φύσει [⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
τοιούτων   ̣  ̣[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩παρὰ-]
λογον(*) γένοιτ[ο⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
——
χωρὶς δὲ τοῦ [⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
τῶν φλεβῶν [⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
10ἀρτηρίων   ̣κ  ̣[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
ἀλλὰ̣ κ̣α̣ὶ [⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
οὐλὴ [⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
καιτ[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
κρ̣α̣[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
15ρ  ̣[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
α̣[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]

Apparatus


^ i.1. or ἀν[ὰ τέσσερας ἡ]μέρας, or ἀν[ὰ πλειόνας ἡ]μέρας
^ i.3-4. l. πε |ποιηκέναι
^ i.5. l. πεποιηκέναι
^ i.12. l. τὸ (τι prev. ed.)(*)
^ i.13. l. κόρην
^ i.14. l. ὑπάρξῃ
^ i.19. or κρούματο[ς]
^ ii.6-7. [⁦ -ca.?- ⁩] | λογον prev. ed.

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Notes

  • col. i.1.

    For [πυρετὸν] συνεχῆ cf. Hp. Epid. 1.11 (2, 670.16 L), Aph. 3.21 (4, 494.20 L), Gal. Cris. 2.6 (9, 664.7 K).

  • 8.

    ἐν ἀυτω[ι]: apparently, ἐν τῷ ὀφθαλμῷ

  • 19.

    κρούματος possibly refers to the blow which has caused the injury.

  • col. ii.6-7.

    For παρὰλογον see col. I, l. 3.