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I.TePrologueinRome
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SassepresentsanoverviewofclauseswithPέVoVtocknownto
him.76Anincompletetextaferthelacunacontains,aswehaveseen,
thefollowingletters:]otω.χωρ[1-2]ṭωṾ[4?].εiṭiKiωV.
]otω.isusuallyinterpretedastheendingofagenitiveplural.
TerestofaletterattheendlooksindeedmuchmorelikeaVthan
likeaϲ.Further,allscholars,exceptR.Böhm,
77
seeχωρńcwithgenitive
plural.TerearenoproblemswithreadingthearticleṭῶṾ,butthe
wordthatfollowsisasubjectofcontroversy.Tediscussionhasled
toanalmostunanimousacceptanceofthehypothesisbyP.M.Meyer,
thefirsteditorofthepapyrus,whorestorestheplaceas:[δεδ]εiṭiKńωV
(dediticii).Tespellingofthatword,whichinGreekisahapax,has
beencorrectedtoδηδεitiKńωV.78Tatsupplementagreeswiththesize
ofthelacuna,whichcancontainnotonlythehypotheticalδη,butalso
apartoftheVandalmostentirelythesecondδofthatword.
Immediatelyaferthelacuna,inthemiddleofline9,thereisafrag-
mentofanobliquestroke,linkingtheextantεwiththelostprecedent
letter.WhentheplateofthefirsteditionofP.Giss.40wasmade,
thatstrokewasslightlylonger.79Tis,however,doesnotfacilitatethe
identificationoftheletter.Underthestroke,thephotographshows
twoparallelfadedstrokes.Tefirstonefromthetopisinfactanillu-
sionduetoapapyrusfibre.Telowerone,however,isreal.Onthe
originalthereisnowonlyaremnantofitintheformofaninkdot.
Onthebasisoftheupperfalseustroke”,theletterprecedingεcould
bereconstructedast,γorλ.However,therealexistenceofthelower
strokeindicatesaδ.Aparticularlygoodparallelisprovidedbythe
76Ch.Sasse,Const.Ant.,p.44-67.
77R.Böhm,StudienzurCivitasRomanaII,III,Aegyptus43,1963,p.54-67,
278-298.
78H.Wolf,DieConstitutioAntoniniana…,n.454;cf.D.Weissert,Hermes91,
1963,p.249sq.
79H.Wolf,DieConstitutioAntoniniana…,n.449isundoubtedlyright,
whenhesaysthatSasse(Const.Ant.,p.38)exaggeratesthedamagedoneby
water.Techangesinthestateofthelocusunderdiscussion,areapparentlynot
duetocontactwithwater.
