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A Note on Corinna

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

D. L. Page
Affiliation:
Trinity College, Cambridge

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Inc.Q,., N.S. v (1955), i76ff., Mr. A. E. Harvey discusses the problem presented by the first ten lines of the first column of the Berlin Papyrus of Corinna, and finds the solution in the region of erroneous colometry. So far as I can judge, he is justified in claiming that he has offered ‘the most concise and satisfactory explanation of the irregularities’; but, if so, there is one further step which should be taken, and there is one obscurity in his account which should be clarified

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Copyright © The Classical Association 1957

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page 109 note 1 The solution of other problems too; but I do not follow him so far. (i) Why a line is (apparently) missing between col. i. 46 and ii. 11: it is suggested that the copyist ‘compressed (say) twelve lines into eleven and went temporarily astray in his colometry’— too large a blunder to be probable, for a man who had by this time shown himself to be naster of the true colometry. (ii) Why the:opyist ‘did not have the confidence to put n any paragraphi’—but we do not know:hat he did not ‘put in any paragraphi’: we Mily know that he left one out at col. ii. 5–6 (the omission of another at col. i. 22 is ittested only by the not infallible eye of Croenert).

page 110 note 1 In v. 6, was marked for deletion, according to Croenert. The last sentence in Mr. Harvey's n. I on p. 179 sug gests that I print the dot over ρ without explaining it: the explanation is in my app. crit. ad loc.

page 110 note 2 Examples abound: e.g. Pind. Pyth. 6. 9 and 12 are about equal in space occupied in die papyrus; but v. 9 has 27 letters, v. 12 has 31; Eur. Cretans col. i. 2–3, almost identical in length, but 14 and 18 letters respectively; Callim. P. Oxy. 2211, fr. 1 r. 5 and 22, hexameter and pentameter identical in length.

page 110 note 3 Sufficient for two lines, according to Wilamowitz; for one, Croenert. I thought that the photograph supported Wilamowitz.

page 110 note 4 If, as Croenert thought, there is room for only one line between 6 and 9, the explanation which I give would become simpler still: the line following 6 contained nothing but , and the true colometry began in v. 9, with Perhaps the doubt, whether there is room for one line or two, arises from the copyist's leaving a little more space than usual between lines at the point where the false colometry stopped and the true began.

page 112 note 1 As for Plut. Mus. 1136b (Mr. Harvey's last footnote): I still think it should be left out of the discussion. There is no reason to suppose that Istros and the enigmatic ‘An-ticles’ are the source for anything beyond (at farthest) the point where diverts attention from them; indeed it is very improbable that they are still the source from this point onwards. Moreover, we know nothing of ‘Anticles’, and should build nothing further on the conjecture ‘Anti-cleides’. As for Istros: he might (but there is no proof that he did) have some knowledge of a third-century (Hellenistic) Corinna.