The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Part 68

18 "to suffer (Ba. 492 'tell me what one must suffer'), in suffering..." (Kannicht). E. Hyps. fr. 60 i 41 B. "for it is shameful to know well how to suffer" (PJP).
19 "palace (= Ba. 1309) Kerkhecker, it is a care to you..." (Kannicht). "care?"
20 "neither... child": most obviously, "neither child." But since the scribe does not always mark elision (note fr. 1 ii 3 "neither"), "neither by enchantment," "enchanting" or the like may not be excluded. ("neither by enchantment nor by... will you change my decision"; cf. A. Ag. 69–71, where Fraenkel suggested for example: "neither by burning under nor by pouring out | nor by unweeping sacred | things will you soothe the unyielding tempers.")

Fr. 2
1 Kannicht suggests e.g. "you might be lost, you might bark, you might ask, you might seek, you might think." "They were distracted" is not found in tragedy.
2 "of the stronger" Kannicht; "cf. Dionys. trag. 76 F 6 'stronger' codd.: KPECCON PSI IX 1093,52–3 (cf. Threatte Gr. Att. Inscr. 2,309) . . . Ion. Ch. 19 F 38,3 [stronger] than others of the stronger" (Kannicht).
3 "I know well" Kannicht; he compares Trag. adesp. 327.1 K.–S. "but I myself know how to hear | ..."
4 "daily, sitting?"
5 Not "strip."
6 "outside the meter e.g. 'well then,' or 'alas!'" (Kannicht).
7 "'Master' in this position vs. Hel. 1627" (Kannicht).

4640. HYPOTHESES TO A THESEUS AND HIPPOLYTUS?

100/1(a)

Two columns of stories about Theseus and Hippolytus are written along the fibers of a papyrus roll. The second column overlaps with and augments the text preserved in P. Mich. inv. 6222A (M. Van Rossum-Steenbeek, Greek Readers’ Digests no. 7). The roll was broken or torn vertically at the beginning of the lines of column ii, but was repaired (with slight text loss) in antiquity. The back is blank except for a patch attached to repair the break and strengthen the roll. For testimonia and examples of the repair of papyrus rolls by means of glued papyrus patches in antiquity, see E. Puglia, La cura del libro nel mondo antico: Guasti e restauri del rotolo di papiro The care of the book in the ancient world: Damage and restorations of the papyrus roll (Naples 1997) chaps. 2–3 pp. 29–79. Running the full height of the fragment, the patch shows a section about 3 cm wide from the end of a column of fragmentary accounts in a documentary script written along the fibers and oriented in the same direction as the writing on the front. The hand of the documentary text is of a type usually assigned to the second or third century AD, making it possible that the text on the front could have been in use for as much as a century or more.

The script belongs to the plain round style represented by Roberts, GLH 9c (late first century BC), 10c (AD 66) and 14 first hand (earlier second century?). It is bilinear in effect (α, β, δ, λ project above and β, ρ, γ, φ sometimes project below the line). The nose of α (looped at left in the manner of hands of the first century BC – first century AD) plunges