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Mommsen, Theodor: A Greek fragment of the Edict of Diocletian, from Plataia
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PLATAIAN FRAGMENT OF THE EDICT OF DIOCLETIAN. 303
lines each. As the part wanting between the second and third col-
umns has been preserved in the other fragments of the Edict, corres-
ponding to ch. 17, 18-50—i. e., 33 lines of my edition,—the number
of lines of the slab in its complete state must have amounted to about
100. This cannot be ascertained exactly, as the division of the lines is
not at all regular.
For the arrangement of the Edict generally the Plataian fragment
is very useful, though it only confirms the arrangement adopted in my
edition coujecturally. It shows that what is there given as ch. 16,
really preceded the following, and it allows a nearly complete restitu-
tion of these two important chapters.
I give the text as it has been copied, with his habitual accuracy,
by Mr. Lolling, corrected in a few passages by the squeeze he sent
me.* I have added the variations of the other texts, so far as they
correspond with the new one; where the defects of the^ Plataian
c'opy are filled up by another, the supplements have been put in
brackets []. In general the reader is referred to my recent paper on the
Edict in Hermes (vol. xxxv, pp. 17-35), where he will find indicated
all the fragments discovered since my edition of the Edict in the Corpus
Insc. Lat., vol. in (1873), p. 801 scq. It is marvellous how much has
been added to the old stock in the last few years, and it may well be
admitted that this growth is due not so much to good fortune, as to
the growing energy and intelligence of studious researches.
FIRST COLUMN.
16, 40 21 [ts xkafivha MovrovvrjcrLav 6. a X] KE
16, 41 22 [ts xXa/j-vSa Aa8lK7)VT)V NlovTovvr]a[av 6. a X] K E
16, 42 23 [/3apfiapiKapL(p Sia y^pvaov epyat,Ofxev\(p
24 \yirep epyov TrpwTeiov X] 'A
16, 43 25 \epyov SevrepeLov X] Y N
16, 44 26 \jiap^apiKapl(p is 6Xoat]pt,Kov virep o. a] X <t>
16. 45 27 [epyov SevTepeiov virep 6. a ] X Y
16, 46 28 [o-qpiKapLrp ipya^OjjLev(pel<io-ov^eipiKOVTpe<^oiJLeP(p~\¥:\(.£
16, 48 29 [efc 6Xoo-Vp IKOV (TKOVTXaTOV ] X 2
16, 49 30 [yepSia rpe<f)Ofi,ev(p vTrep et/xariov ire^ov ro>p e]t? ira-
16, 42, ICO Plat. 16, 47, Is &\otnptK)>v ta^fxov rp^po^vif witpijinaXK E is wanting
wi Plat. 16, 4S, X2 thus Pi.at. and Karyst. XM Theb.
* These corrections were mostly entered hy Dr. Lolling in the facsimile, but the
two texts still disagree in some minor points. A. C. M.
lines each. As the part wanting between the second and third col-
umns has been preserved in the other fragments of the Edict, corres-
ponding to ch. 17, 18-50—i. e., 33 lines of my edition,—the number
of lines of the slab in its complete state must have amounted to about
100. This cannot be ascertained exactly, as the division of the lines is
not at all regular.
For the arrangement of the Edict generally the Plataian fragment
is very useful, though it only confirms the arrangement adopted in my
edition coujecturally. It shows that what is there given as ch. 16,
really preceded the following, and it allows a nearly complete restitu-
tion of these two important chapters.
I give the text as it has been copied, with his habitual accuracy,
by Mr. Lolling, corrected in a few passages by the squeeze he sent
me.* I have added the variations of the other texts, so far as they
correspond with the new one; where the defects of the^ Plataian
c'opy are filled up by another, the supplements have been put in
brackets []. In general the reader is referred to my recent paper on the
Edict in Hermes (vol. xxxv, pp. 17-35), where he will find indicated
all the fragments discovered since my edition of the Edict in the Corpus
Insc. Lat., vol. in (1873), p. 801 scq. It is marvellous how much has
been added to the old stock in the last few years, and it may well be
admitted that this growth is due not so much to good fortune, as to
the growing energy and intelligence of studious researches.
FIRST COLUMN.
16, 40 21 [ts xkafivha MovrovvrjcrLav 6. a X] KE
16, 41 22 [ts xXa/j-vSa Aa8lK7)VT)V NlovTovvr]a[av 6. a X] K E
16, 42 23 [/3apfiapiKapL(p Sia y^pvaov epyat,Ofxev\(p
24 \yirep epyov TrpwTeiov X] 'A
16, 43 25 \epyov SevrepeLov X] Y N
16, 44 26 \jiap^apiKapl(p is 6Xoat]pt,Kov virep o. a] X <t>
16. 45 27 [epyov SevTepeiov virep 6. a ] X Y
16, 46 28 [o-qpiKapLrp ipya^OjjLev(pel<io-ov^eipiKOVTpe<^oiJLeP(p~\¥:\(.£
16, 48 29 [efc 6Xoo-Vp IKOV (TKOVTXaTOV ] X 2
16, 49 30 [yepSia rpe<f)Ofi,ev(p vTrep et/xariov ire^ov ro>p e]t? ira-
16, 42, ICO Plat. 16, 47, Is &\otnptK)>v ta^fxov rp^po^vif witpijinaXK E is wanting
wi Plat. 16, 4S, X2 thus Pi.at. and Karyst. XM Theb.
* These corrections were mostly entered hy Dr. Lolling in the facsimile, but the
two texts still disagree in some minor points. A. C. M.