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PHOENIX OF COLOPHON FR. 5 DIEHL

(ap. Athen. XI, 495 D)
eaij,; yae, t oan,; ') dm:eewl' 2) t ol''ljuno,;
uai Tii))! TOT', 00'; Aiyovm, nool' 3) dl'()(!omwv
ewv 4 ) a(!taTO';, sae neM{<!. xevaijv.

(I) Either (a) OaTt'; or (b) daTeewl' plus MJV must be corrupt. If (b) is
the case, then Casaubon's daTewv (for the transmitted daTe(!wv) combined
with Gulick's S'fJ1' (for the transmitted EWV) seems to be the most likely emendation.
(2) However, I hate to sacrifice the transmitted daTe(!Wv. For, after all,
Thales was the first Greek astronomer. Cf. Diog. Laert. I, 23: oouet oe (sc.
eaij,;) uaTa nl'a,; n(!WTO'; daT(!ooyijaat... o()ev amol' uai Eevo<pav1J'; ual
'HeOOOTO'; (I, 74, 2) ()avllai;et, lIaeTveelo' amwt uai 'Hea"'etTO'; ",ai ,11JlloU(!tTO';. Timon. fr. 23 Diels:

o lol' ()' enra ea1JTa ao<pwv ao<pov daTeOVOIl1Jlla.

A. G. VII, 83 (both apo D.L. 1,34):

TOv& eaijl' M{1JTO'; 'la,; ()(!61paa'

dveoet~ev

daT(!ooyov nclvrwl' :n;(!eavTaTol' ao<p{1Jt.

(Incidentally, the form daTeow, for daTwv, does not seem to be established).
(3) Consequently, I would consider the trivial OaTt'; as a corruption.
So did Gerhard, but his reading [aTWe (for oan,;) is not convincing palaeographically. Thus read:
eaij,; (oe), yvwaT1J'; daTe(!Wl' ov'ljtaTO';
rl'WaT1J'; was misread by
:n;owl' A, for nool').

some scribe as ytl(] oan,;, that is all (cf. perhaps also

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