The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Texts 654 839

Author : Bernard Pyne Grenfell
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230733999
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (339 download)

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Download or read book The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Volume 4, Nos. 654-839 written by Bernard Pyne Grenfell and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...if KoiWior in Ibcr. 66-7 is a corruption of Aovaot or KauciXtor, there will be no conflict between Livy and Appian as to the predecessor of Fabius Servilianus. Dismissing therefore the supposed Quinctius, there still remains the governorship of Southern Spain for B.C. 143 to be accounted for. The passage in Appian referring to Aemilianus' successor Kourou Ylo/xniuv ACXou is obviously quite corrupt. The insertion of Tov before ASXov (Schweighauser, followed by Mendelssohn) does little to mend matters. There is no point in the mention of the father's praenomen and there is clearly a confusion in the text between this person and the KwWu nojiT7jio ACXu mentioned mlber. 76. That Q. Pompeiuswas consul in B.c 141 and succeeded Q. Metellus as governor of Northern Spain in the same year (cf. 1. 174). His cognomen was Rufus, so that editors bracket AffXp in ch. 76. In any case this Quintus Pompeius cannot be the successor of Aemilianus in B.c 143, and the best course seems to be to fall back on the statement of Valerius Maximus (ix. 3. 7, v. sup.) that Q. Metellus governed utramque Hispaniam. Seeing that Aemilianus governed both provinces for two years, there is not the least difficulty in supposing that his successor did the same for one, but that in the second year a separate governor was sent to the Southern province. On this hypothesis we would suggest that Kourou no/imji'ou AvXou in Jber. 65 is corrupt for Kotmov KnixtX/ou MTiXXou, and that the following words 6 Si dS(p6s atrov Ma i/ior At'/uXtaitSr, which are simply omitted by editors, really contained a reference to the brother of Q. Metellus, L. Metellus. The sentence is in that case incomplete and the lacuna may well have supplied some details about the events of B.c 143-2...