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          <change when="2018-05-09T09:17:10-04:00"
                 who="https://papyri.info/editor/users/james.cowey">Finalized - Ready.</change>
          <change when="2018-02-04T13:30:16-05:00"
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                 who="https://papyri.info/editor/users/PaulvdLaan">Submit - Entered Greek text from BGU 20.2874. General remark: Inserted as much as possible the observations made by Kalén in ed. comm. (without reference to where these are made), see lin3,4-5, 9, 10, 20. Please check my attempts to insert (with ultimate accuracy) several - sometimes very complicated - suggestions made by both editor and Kalén!!&#xD;
lin2: changed second (question mark) into [.?]; lin8: skipped question mark, seems not to fit into Leiden+, moreover see ed.comm.; lin12: changed acutus from ε to ο; put 2 diaireseis on υἱέ, preview shows the word twice, don't know how to avoid; lin37: added opening square bracket after πεδία, otherwise final bracket should be deleted; lin38: question mark after "vac.?" seems not possible.</change>
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<lb n="2" break="no"/>λωνία καί Τριάδελφος καί Δίδ<unclear>υ</unclear><supplied reason="lost" cert="low">μος</supplied> <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/> <supplied reason="lost">χαίρειν. πρὸ μὲν</supplied>
<lb n="3"/>πάντων εὐχόμεθα νυκτὸς καὶ ἡ<supplied reason="lost">μέρας</supplied> <app type="alternative"><lem><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/></lem><rdg><supplied reason="lost">τοῖς θεοῖς</supplied>, Κalén</rdg></app> <app type="alternative"><lem><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/></lem><rdg><supplied reason="lost">ἡμεῖς</supplied>, Κalén</rdg></app> <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
<lb n="4"/>καὶ Ταπιῶμις ἵνα δώσουσίν σοι <app type="alternative"><lem><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
<lb n="5"/><gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="character"/><gap reason="lost" quantity="2" unit="character"/><gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="character"/></lem><rdg><supplied reason="lost">ὑγιαίνοντα διαγίνε</supplied><lb n="5" break="no"/><unclear>σ</unclear><supplied reason="lost">θαι</supplied>, Kalén</rdg></app> <unclear>κ</unclear>ύριε υἱέ. περὶ πολλοῦ <choice><reg>σοι</reg><orig>σο<unclear>υ</unclear></orig></choice> <supplied reason="lost" cert="low">γενέσθω</supplied> <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
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<lb n="7"/>δύναμιν <choice><reg>ἥν</reg><orig>τὴν</orig></choice> <choice><reg>οἶσθα</reg><reg>οἶδας</reg><orig><unclear>ο</unclear>ἶδες</orig></choice> ὅτι παρε<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
<lb n="8"/><subst><add place="inline">ἠγόρακα</add><del rend="corrected">ἐγόρακα</del></subst> Ἐσουπουν <app type="alternative"><lem><choice><reg>Άλεξανδρ<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/></reg><orig>Ἀλεξαντρ<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/></orig></choice></lem><rdg><choice><reg>Ἀλεξανδρ<supplied reason="lost">είᾳ</supplied></reg><orig>Ἀλεξαντρ<supplied reason="lost">είᾳ</supplied></orig></choice> <supplied reason="lost">ἐνγενῆ</supplied></rdg></app>
<lb n="9"/>ἐτ<unclear>ῶ</unclear>ν <num value="16"><hi rend="supraline">ιϛ</hi></num> καὶ πᾶσαν τέχνην <app type="alternative"><lem>ε<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/></lem><rdg>ἐ<supplied reason="lost">διδάχθη</supplied></rdg><rdg>ἐ<supplied reason="lost">πισταμένην</supplied>, Kalén</rdg></app> <app type="alternative"><lem><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/></lem><rdg><supplied reason="lost">μετὰ δ' ὀλίγους</supplied></rdg></app>
<lb n="10"/>μῆνας πονηρὸς <choice><reg>δαίμων</reg><orig>δέμων</orig></choice> <app type="alternative"><lem>αὐτη<gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="character"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/></lem><rdg>αὐτῇ <unclear>π</unclear><supplied reason="lost">ρόσκειται</supplied>, Kalén</rdg></app> <gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
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<lb n="14"/><gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="character"/><gap reason="lost" quantity="3" unit="character"/><unclear>μ</unclear>ελων ταύτην ἀγορασ<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
<lb n="15"/>καὶ <gap reason="lost" quantity="2" unit="character"/><gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="character"/>ως ἐζημιώθην παν<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
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<lb n="18"/>κορασίδια πέμψον ἡμῖν ε<gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="character"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
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<lb n="22"/>εἰς <unclear>οἶ</unclear>κον αὐτοῦ δ<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
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<lb n="35"/><gap reason="lost" quantity="3" unit="character"/>κ<gap reason="illegible" quantity="4" unit="character"/>ασ.. ἡμῖν περὶ τ.<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
<lb n="36"/><choice><reg>εἶναι</reg><orig>εἶνε</orig></choice>. <space extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
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