Hibeh Papyri 1 1906 PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...nickname, but probably refers to the style of Zenobius' dancing. Smyly well compares Plautus, Mil. 668 Turn ad saltandum non cinaedus malacus aequest atque ego. 26. Kvov: or perhaps Kiv6. Ktpapov can also have a collective sense, 'earthenware.' 55. Letter Of Scythes To Ptolemaeus. Mummy A (probably A 9). 9-3X12 cm. B.C. 250 (249). A short letter from Scythes, a superior official, to Ptolemaeus (cf. 51, introd.), ordering him to come to Talao, a village in the Oxyrhynchite nome (cf. P. Oxy. 365. 15), with a shepherd who was to give evidence. The writing is across the fibres. XicvOrjs IlToXffiaioi xaipeiv. napaytvov eh TaXawv ijSrj dyav Kal Toy noipiva rov eXiy-fcovra irtpl 5v poi eliras. lav 8e 5 PpaSvTtpov noifjis aavTov /3d-ijrfi?, ov ybp o-oXdco pivtiv irXtiova p6vov. tppaxro. (trows) Xe Xoia;. On the verso IlToXepaicot. 'Scythes to Ptolemaeus, greeting. Come to Talao at once, and bring with you the shepherd in order that he may give evidence in the matter about which you told me. If you are remiss you will injure yourself, for I have no leisure to remain longer. Goodbye. The 35th year, Choiak 6. (Addressed) To Ptolemaeus.' 56. Letter Of Patron To Ptolemaeus. Mummy A9. 12-1 X46 cm. B.c 249 (248). A peremptory note to Ptolemaeus from Patron, perhaps the apxKpvXaKtrris mentioned in 34.1 and 73. 9-10, ordering him not to molest a certain Nicostratus; cf. 59. 9-12 and introd. to 61. Tldrpcov UroXi-pa(ai yalptiv. napa-yevSpevos wpbs fl/xds "ixcdv fcprj eio-5 irpdaativ re Nik&-3. There is not room for trap /ioXi)i. 4. Panemus at this period probably coincided approximately with Epeiph (cf. App. i), in which month the numbers of Philadelphus' regnal years were still one in arrear of those of the revenue years; cf. 80. 13-4, ...