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Introduction
Medical treatise. Fragment (8 x 20.5 cm) of a papyrus roll containing on the verso parts of two columns (on the recto, a Latin financial document dating back to the first half of the 1st cent. AD: P.Princ. 3.143 = CPL 196). Upper and lower margins survive to a height of 3.1 cm; the space between the columns averages about 2 cm, but the remains of col. I show that the lines were very uneven in length. The work preserved on the recto is a treatise on tumors, caused by ‘heat’ (inflammation). In view of its simple, ‘basic’ character, any attribution to a special school (Methodists, Empiricists, as Johnson 1942, 10 suggests) seems a priori pointless. The text was copied in an uncial hand assignable to the middle of the 1st cent. AD.
vac. ? lines
[ -ca.?- ]νεσαπο
[ -ca.?- ]ελεγον(*)
[ -ca.?- ]μ ̣αν(*)
5[ -ca.?- ] ̣μα(*)
[ -ca.?- ]σιντας
[ -ca.?- ]αισγει(*)
[ -ca.?- ]ν̣ειτου(*)
[ -ca.?- ]η̣μεις
10[ -ca.?- ]νκαι
[ -ca.?- ]μ̣εν(*)
[ -ca.?- ]διαθερ
[ -ca.?- ]καγ(*)
[ -ca.?- ]σοις(*)
15[ -ca.?- ] ̣αστρο(*)
[ -ca.?- ]τ̣αα
[ -ca.?- ]ν̣ον
[ -ca.?- ] ̣οις
[ -ca.?- ]η̣συ
20[ -ca.?- ]και(*)
[ -ca.?- ]ν̣υ
[ -ca.?- ]πνευ(*)
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ἑν τῷ ὄνκῳ(*) θερμα[ -ca.?- ]
25γεινομένου ἀναγ[ -ca.?- ]
σεσθαι(*) καὶ ἀραιῶσθ[αι -ca.?- ]
τα ἐξ ἐπιπολῆς π[ -ca.?- ](*)
ον δὲ προβαίνοντ[α -ca.?- ]
σιοις(*) ἀναγκαῖόν ἐστ̣[ι -ca.?- ]
30βάθους τινῶν ἀγγεί[ων -ca.?- ](*)
διαφορεῖσθαι διὰ [τ]ῶν̣ [ -ca.?- ]
σεως καὶ μ̣άλιστα εν̣[ -ca.?- ](*)
ρα τούτου δ̣ὲ γεινομ̣[ένου -ca.?- ](*)
νει ἀποξηραίνεσθαι̣ [ -ca.?- -ca.?- ]-
35ρον(*) καὶ ἑλκώδη τον[ -ca.?- ](*)
θεραπείαν μὲν οὖν ̣[ -ca.?- ἀ-]
ναγκαιοτάτην εἶναι [ -ca.?- τρῖ-]
ψιν(*) ἐν πολλῷ ἐλαίῳ ̣[ -ca.?- ]
ρον μηδὲ ἐν θερμῷ ̣[ -ca.?- ]
40μὴ προσδιαφορῶντ̣[αι -ca.?- ]
θερμότερον καὶ τῶ̣ν [ -ca.?- ὑ-]
περβαίνειν(*) ὅπως μὴ̣ [ -ca.?- ]
ται καὶ τὴν τροφὴν ̣[ -ca.?- ὑ-]
ποστέλλοντα(*) τῶν ξ[ηρῶν -ca.?- ]
45ὑγροῦ τὴν δόσιν κατα̣[ -ca.?- ]
σθαι διάψυξ̣ιν δ̣ὲ κατ̣[ -ca.?- ](*)
νεσθαι κατ̣ὰ̣ τὸν ἐν κα[ -ca.?- ]
ωρα γυμνάζωνται σ̣υ̣[ -ca.?- ](*)
Apparatus
^ i.1. [ -ca.?- ] ̣ν προ prev. ed.
^ i.3. [ -ca.?- ]λ̣ο̣τον prev. ed.
^ i.4. [ -ca.?- ]ω̣ματι prev. ed.
^ i.5. [ -ca.?- ]μα prev. ed.
^ i.7. [ -ca.?- ]ωστει prev. ed.
^ i.8. [ -ca.?- ]νεπου prev. ed.
^ i.11. [ -ca.?- ]ων prev. ed.
^ i.13. [ -ca.?- ]καὶ prev. ed.
^ i.14. [ -ca.?- ]γοις prev. ed.
^ i.15. [ -ca.?- ] ̣ας πο prev. ed.
^ i.20. [ -ca.?- ]ιον prev. ed.
^ i.22. [ -ca.?- ]ν̣συ ̣ prev. ed.
^ ii.23. or κεινήσεω[ν]
^ ii.24. ὄκνῳ prev. ed.
^ ii.25-26. or γεινομένου ἀναγ[καῖόν ἐστι μαλθάσ]|σεσθαι (or [μαλάσ]|σεσθαι), γειν[ο]μένου ἀνὰ π̣[ -ca.?- ]|σεσθαι prev. ed.
^ ii.27. τρ̣[ -ca.?- ] prev. ed.
^ ii.29. οἵοις prev. ed.
^ ii.30. ἀπει[ -ca.?- ] prev. ed.
^ ii.32. [μ]άλιστα ω̣[ -ca.?- ] prev. ed.
^ ii.33. ρατον τοὺ[ς] ἐπινομ[ -ca.?- ] prev. ed.
^ ii.34-35. or [ -ca.?- σκλη]|ρὸν, or [ -ca.?- ξη]|ρὸν
^ ii.35. τὸν [ -ca.?- τὴν] prev. ed.
^ ii.37-38. [ -ca.?- ἄλει]|ψιν prev. ed.
^ ii.41-42. πω[ -ca.?- ὑ]|περβαίνειν prev. ed.
^ ii.43-44. [ -ca.?- ἀ]|ποστέλλοντα prev. ed.
^ ii.46. σθω διὰ τ̣ο̣ῦ ῥ̣ινὸ̣ς καὶ ̣[ -ca.?- ] prev. ed.
^ ii.48. ̣ ̣[ -ca.?- ] prev. ed.
Notes
- col.ii, 25-6.
For [μαλθάσ]σεσθαι see Hp. Liqu. 6 [6, 134.8-9 L]; for [μαλάσ]σεσθαι Hp. Aph. 5.22 [4, 538.14 L].
- 31.
διαφορεῖσθαι: διαφορεῖν is a usual therapeutical term, in this connection (see e.g. Gal. Tumor.praeter nat. 7, 712.10 K]).
- 37-8.
This therapy, on the basis of oil, is for such cases recommended by Galen (see Orib. Coll.Med. 44.28.1 [3, 157.11-13 Raed.]).
- 40.
Line omitted in editio princeps (see Johnson 1942, 11).
- 43-4.
For [ὑ]ποστέλλοντα, see Jordan 1975, 77.