Abstract

A most pleasing recent advance in our knowledge of Callimachus’ fragmentary poems has been the recognition that an elegiac piece, part of which appeared as P. Oxy. vol. 1 no. 14, belongs to him and, one presumes, to the Aetia. Powell already thought of Callimachus as the author, others of Nicander . Evidence that the author was of some standing is provided by the fact that a scholiast on Nicander, Theriaca 386 quoted line 4 of the fragment1 .2 Great progress came with the publication by M. Gronewald of P. Mich. 4761, which preserves, almost though not quite perfectly, the beginning of lines 5–15 , wherein P. Oxy