The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Part 5

NOTE ON THE METHOD OF PUBLICATION

THE same general method is followed in this volume as in its predecessors. The three new literary texts are printed in dual form, a reconstruction in modern style in the case of 840 following, in that of 841 and 842 facing, a literal transcript. In the two texts of extant authors, 843 and 844, the originals are reproduced except for division of words, addition of capital initials to proper names, and supplements of lacunae. Additions or corrections by the same hand as the body of the text are in small thin type, those by a different hand in thick type. Square brackets [ ] indicate a lacuna, round brackets ( ) the resolution of an abbreviation or contraction, angular brackets < > a mistaken omission in the original or a correction made by us; double square brackets [[ ]] mean that the letters within them have been deleted in the original, braces { } that the letters so enclosed, though actually written, should be omitted. Dots placed within brackets represent the approximate number of letters lost or deleted; dots outside brackets indicate mutilated or otherwise illegible letters. Letters with dots under them are to be considered doubtful. Heavy Arabic numerals refer to the texts of the Oxyrhynchus papyri published in this volume and in Parts I—IV; ordinary numerals to lines; small Roman numerals to columns.