Fr. 80
ἂν νέφος αν[
εἴτε γὰρ οὐκατ[
τοῦτ' εἰπεῖν[ ] [
ἐ]ξ ἐμέθεν τε[ ]ντα.’
5 ἦ] ῥα· σὲ δ' οὐ πυλεών οὐ κά]λυκες,
Λ]ύδιον οὐ κα[ίρωμα ]ι Κάειρ[α]ι
λάτριες, οὐκαγ̣[. .].ικο[ ]ς, K
τ]οῖς ἔπι θηλύτ[ερ]αι.[ ] ἰαίνεσθε
ἔξαιτον, πυκι[νοῦ γ]νώματος ἐξ[έ]βαλ[ο]ν·
10 αἰδοῖ δ' ὡς φοί[νικι] τεὰς ἐρύθουσα παρειάς
ἔνν]επες ὀφ[θαλμο]ῖς ἔμπαλι κ[ριν]ομέν[ο]ι[ς
]. .[ ]ε̣ χρήζοιμι [νέ]εσθαι
]. .[. μετὰ πλ]εόνων.’
].ε, νόον δ' ἐφ[ρ]άσσατο σεῖο
15 ]πατρίδι μαιομένης
]Μυ[όε]ντα καὶ οἳ Μίλητον ἔναι[ον
]η· μούν[ης νηὸν ἐς] Ἀρτέμιδος
π]ωλε[ῖσθαι Νη]ληΐδο[ς, ἀλ]λὰ σὺ τῆμος
βουκτ]ασ[ι]ῶν ἀρ[τὺν πιστο]τέρην ἔταμες,
20 ἔνδει]ξας καὶ Κύπ[ρι]ν ὅτι ῥη[τ]ῆρας ἐκείνου
τ]εύχει τοῦ Πυλί[ου κρ]έσσονας οὐκ ὀλίγον.
ἐ]ξεσίαι πολέε[ς γὰρ ἀπ' ἀμφοτέροιο μο]λοῦσαι
ἄστ]εος ἀπρήκτ[ους οἴκαδ' ἀνῆλθον ὁδούς.
].σθ[.]θε.[
Fr. 81
. . . . .
]κτεαν[ον
]δ' ακου[σ
Φρύ]γιος·
κατ]ένευσεν[
5 ἀ]ποστρέ[φεται
notes
Fr. 80 Harder (= 80 + 82 Pf., = 184 Mass.)
1-12 init., 7-8 med. P.Oxy. 2212, fr. 4 (a) [image],
Trismegistos 59390
3-22 fin. P.Oxy. 2213 fr. 1 (a+b), 1-2 [image],
Trismegistos 59392
14-21 fin. P.Oxy. 2212, fr. 2 (a+b) [image], Trismegistos 59390
16-19 med. P.Oxy. 2212, fr. 5, 1-4 [image], Trismegistos 59390
19-24 init. P.Oxy. 2213, fr. 9, 1-6 [image], Trismegistos 59392
19-21 med. P.Oxy. 2212, fr. 1 (a), 1-3 [image],
Trismegistos 59390
Fr. 81 Harder (= 81 Pf., = 183 Mass.) P.Oxy. 2213, fr. 17, 1-5,
[image] Trismegistos 59392
This is the love story of Phrygius and Pieria, who were respectively from Myus and Miletus. Though the two cities were at war, the women of Myus were allowed to attend the festival of Artemis at Miletus. Phrygius, the local king, caught sight of Pieria at the festival and imediately fell in love. After sleeping with her, he asked what he might give her. Instead of finery or jewels, she asked for peace between their two towns. What we have is a part of Pieria's blushing request. This episode is also paraphrased by Aristaenetus in his erotic epistle 1.15.16-58. This aition is very clearly a doublet of the earlier account of Acontius and Cydippe.
The large Κ in the right margin of line 7 is a stichometric mark = 1000. These are thought to have been used by scribes to mark running totals of lines copied.
Bibliography
Barigazzi, Adelmo. 1976. ‘L'aition di Frigio e Pieria in Callimaco.’ Prometheus 2: 11-17.
Harder, M. Annette. 1993. ‘Thanks to Aristaenetus…’ In Polyphonia Byzantina. Studies in honour of Willem J. Aerts. Mediaevalia Groningana 13, edited by Hero Hokwerda, Edmé R. Smits and Marinus M. Woesthuis, 3-13. Groningen: Forsten.