In PCPS N.S. XV (1969), 69 ff. I defined the triadic structure of P. Oxy. 2735 fr. I and suggested that the contents of this and other fragments would seem more at home in Ibycus than in Stesichorus. It was already clear that not all the fragments of this papyrus come from the same poem, but I had not yet noticed that the number of poems represented is probably at least three, and that there are now further reasons for preferring Ibycus as author.
The following two fragments belong to poems different from each other and from fr. 1:
(a) P. Oxy. 2735 fr. II
(i) The tradic structure (top of column)
(a), (b), (c) with paragraphos mark stanza-ends according to the three schemes described immediately below.
Though the left-hand margin is nowhere preserved, I take it as self-evident that these are the beginnings of lines. It is likely, in Ibycus or Stesichorus, that eighteen lines will cover at least about two-thirds, perhaps the whole, of a triad; and in fact it seems obvious that strophe, antistrophe, and epode are represented here, although it is not quite certain where the stanzas end.
There are three choices:
(a) 1–6 = ant., 7–11 = ep., 12–17 = str., 18 ff. = ant.
(b) 1–5 = ant., 6–10 = ep., 11–16 = str., 17 ff. = ant.
(c) 1–5 = str., 6–16 = ant., 17 ff. = ep.