The Oxyrhynchus papyri. Part 2 / edited with translations and notes by Bernard P. Grenfell and Arthur S. Hunt.

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1899
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    7. ο e(tXfKro]y. The lacuna here is larger by the space of one letter than in the two lines preceding. It would therefore be hardly filled up by reading ο viojs. Moreover, in this MS., υιοί would naturally have been written in the shortened form w. There is indeed apparent above and rather to the left of the s a spot of ink which might represent the end of a stroke of contraction. But in other cases of contraction in the papyrus the horizontal stroke projects beyond the letters over which it is placed, which the spot above s here does not do. On the other hand ο (κλΐκτος ΰϊ would be too long for the lacuna, besides being open to the objection already stated to reading vs here, ο ΐκΚΐκτος has the support of N, and is printed in the margin by W-H., who give 6 vlos in the text. 8. ιστηκα (NAF, &c, W-H.) suits the lacuna better than tio-τηκΐΐ (BCE, &c.); cf. ηλιας fol. 1, verso 6, note. 12. αντον which is read before 01 δυο μαθηται by A and other MSS., after δυο by CL, &c, and after μαθηται by NB, was apparently omitted altogether in the papyrus. It certainly did not stand in the first position ; and it is impossible to get twenty-five letters into the lacuna of this line, which would be the result of assigning the word to either of the latter positions. To suppose that λαλουντος was omitted would make the line too short. 15. 01 8e, which has been added above the line by the original scribe, is read by all MSS.; cf. fol. 2, verso 2. αυ[τω has been cancelled by dots placed over the letters. The omission of the pronoun has no support from other MSS. 16. If, as is at least probable, τω was written at the beginning of this line, there would scarcely be room enough for μιθερμηνευομ^νον, even supposing that ραββι (ACFGL, &c.) and not ραββπ (NBE, &c.) stood here, μ^ρμψΐυόμίνον is read by W-H. with ABCL and Other MSS. ; ΐρμψΐυομενον NP, &c. 19. It seems on the whole more probable that the papyrus agreed with the majority of MSS. in having ow here. The size of the lacuna is practically the same as in the two lines preceding. 20. The reading is very uncertain. At the end of the line is a mark which resembles the rough breathing in 1. 11 ; and the other vestiges are consistent with εκΐΐνψ. But the line is then abnormally short. 21. Considerations of space are slightly in favour of the addition of δβ after ωρα, but are insufficient to justify its insertion. There is a strong consensus of manuscript authority against it. 22. It is evident that the ordinary text αδελφοί Κίμωνος ΐΐίτρου Λς ίκ των δύο (W-H., T.R.) is considerably too long for the space here available. The question is whether this reading would be sufficiently shortened by the omission (with Ν and C) of των, or whether it is necessary to suppose a variant peculiar to the papyrus, e.g. the omission of πι-τρου. The ν of δυο stands slightly to the right of the υ of ιωαννου in the next line, and therefore twenty-two letters should approximately fill the lacuna in 1. 22. This is the number produced by omitting π^τρου; while if πιτρου be retained, and των omitted, the number of letters will be twenty-five. Probably the latter alternative is the safer. Fol. 2, rec/o. 18. The omission of φραιστι with AEGK, &c, T.R., would make the line considerably too short. 19. The ordinary reading 'Ραββουνί, 6 λίγιται διδάσκαλε λίγα αυτή [ό] Ίησοϋί produces a line of at least thirty-four letters, which is obviously too long. D has κνρκ διδάσκαλε, which looks rather like a conflation of two variants, and suggests that*? alone may have stood here in the papyrus; cf. note on fol. 1, verso 5. Domine is found in a (Vercellensis). Verso. 2. There is no authority for the omission of και, which is added above the line by the first hand. The reading of the papyrus here perhaps points to στα*, with a variant eo-τη, in the lacuna. 3. tout' : τούτο MSS., W-H.
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