Hecataeus of Miletus

FGrH 1 F 1b — ps.-Demetrius, De elocutione 2 Converged + audit-sound

βούλεται μέντοι διάνοιαν ἀπαρτίζειν τὰ κῶλα ταῦτα, ποτὲ μὲν ὅλην διάνοιαν, οἷον ὡς Ἑκαταῖός φησιν ἐν τῆι ἀρχῆι τῆς ἱστορίας· «῾Εκαταῖος Μιλήσιος ὧδε μυθεῖται».

The real function of these clauses is to conclude a thought, sometimes a complete thought, as when Hecataeus says at the beginning of his history: 'Hecataeus of Miletus speaks as follows.'

Apparatus — BNJ base vs open-corpus witness

Base text after Brill’s New Jacoby / Jacoby (FGrH). The apparatus records differences against the open-corpus witness (ps.-Demetrius, De elocutione 1.2 (Scaife/Perseus grc2)) within the overlapping span; encoding and orthography are folded. Collation codepoint-verified and adversarially audited (2026-06-26).

Lemma / locus	BNJ base	Witness	Type	Note
ἱστορίας (punctuation)	ἱστορίας + U+00B7 MIDDLE DOT (raised dot; specialist called it 'ano teleia' but it is codepoint U+00B7, not U+0387)	ἱστορίας + U+002C COMMA	punctuation	REAL — codepoint-confirmed
incipit «Ἑκαταῖος Μιλήσιος ὧδε μυθεῖται» (editorial quotation-marking)	U+00AB «...» U+00BB guillemets enclosing the incipit + final U+002E FULL STOP	no guillemets; incipit ends in U+00B7 MIDDLE DOT and runs on into Demetrius' continuing prose (συνείληπται γὰρ...)	punctuation / editorial quotation-marking	REAL — codepoint-confirmed

Witness: ps.-Demetrius, De elocutione 1.2 (Scaife/Perseus grc2). Verdict: CONVERGED.
Open-corpus witness family: urn:cts:greekLit. This is a BNJ/Jacoby-based edition with an open-corpus apparatus, not a verbatim copy of the witness edition. Source data: explorers/_build/editions/ecoed-hecat-fgrh1-f1b.json.