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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Credit: The Oxyrhynchus papyri. Part 2 / edited with translations and notes by Bernard P. Grenfell and Arthur S. Hunt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The letters YX at the end of this line do not appear in the facsimile owing to the fact that the small piece of papyrus containing them was turned over when the photograph was taken. II. i. The third letter may be Y. Fr. (a). Col. I. a-12. 2 [5^ — ν _]7re τώνδ' €7rei μόνος φόβων. [και μην λι]θουργες (ίκόνισμ' iSeiv πάρα, [τη μ\ν χρό]α κωφαΐσιν (ϊκελον πίτραις, 5 [βορφην δ' €κ]είνης οΐδα κώμματοσταγεΐς [πηγάς· δι]ύγρω κάλνβι κοιμηθήσεται. [μύγιστον '4\σγον θάμβος· η γαρ πνεΰμ' evi [? άκαρ]δίοις πίτροισιν, ή 'μπαλιν σθίνςι [θξος λιθ]ώσαι. τοιγαροΰν 6[ea>]povvri μοι ίο παιδος p)ev οικτρά συμφορά δάπτζι φρίνας, [το δ' ίστά]ναι μολόνθ' εκουσίους μάγας [θξοΐσι] Μοιρών άντ'ι άζον[ται βρο]τοί. Fr. (b). Col. I. - w - ^ - w]s [ώ]ρφανίσμςθα. [που μοι τυράννα σκή]πτρα; που δόμων 'ίδη ; _ ^ _ ^ σύ\ντομον σκηπτουγία [— — — — — ν]ΰν ίρημία. g [ί^ _ w _ ^ ]οντζς αίανή[ν] λίγω -· - ί=£ - Τ€τ\άγισμαι κακών [±ί - u - — - σ]φόδρ' ίύτυγϊ) κρατάν [^-o-^-w-w δυ]στνχής [— — — — παι/Tja γά/9 τρο-χου δίκην ίο ήγο[υμίνη τις δξσπ]ότις κυκλςΐ τύχ[η. (a). I. 3-12· ' Lo, there may be seen the stone-wrought image, in colour like to the dumb rocks, but with the familiar shape and founts of welling tears; a dark abode shall be her resting-place. I am stricken with amazement! Either there is breath in the lifeless stones, or the god has power to petrify. Thus as I gaze my heart is wrung by my child's piteous lot; yet to go forth and engage in wilful contests with the gods in despite of Fate—that mortals dare not.' (a). I. 2 sqq. Cf. Sophocles, Ant. 823-833.
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