Hecataeus of Miletus

FGrH 1 F 301 — Arrian, Anabasis 5.6.5 Converged + audit-sound

Αἴγυπτόν τε Ἡρόδοτός τε καὶ Ἑκαταῖος οἱ λογοποιοί, ἢ εἰ δή του ἄλλου [ἢ Ἑκαταίου] ἐστὶ τὰ ἀμφὶ τῆι γῆι τῆι Αἰγυπτίαι ποιήματα, δῶρόν τε τοῦ ποταμοῦ ἀμφότεροι ὡσαύτως ὀνομάζουσιν, καὶ οὐκ ἀμαυροῖς τεκμηρίοις ὅτι ταύτηι ἔχει Ἡροδότωι ἐπιδέδεικται.

Both Herodotus and Hecataeus the prose writers — whether the work on the Egyptian land is by Hecataeus or in fact by someone else — alike call Egypt 'the gift of the river,' and Herodotus has shown by no obscure proofs that this is so.

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 (Scaife/Perseus) 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
—	[ἢ Ἑκαταίου]	Perseus (Arrian, Anab. 5.6.5; urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0074.tlg001.perseus-grc2)	seclusion	BNJ editorial seclusion (athetesis): the candidate target_grc brackets ἢ Ἑκαταίου as deleted/doubted by the editor. Perseus prints ἢ Ἑκαταίου UNBRACKETED as part of the running text. Confirmed by codepoint diff: with the brackets removed and iota-adscript folded to subscript, candidate and Perseus are byte-for-byte identical through ὀνομάζουσιν, so the bracket is the sole substantive editorial mark here. Per F301 policy this is type 'seclusion', NOT a supplied/[]-restored text.
—	καὶ οὐκ ἀμαυροῖς τεκμηρίοις ὅτι ταύτηι ἔχει ῾Ηροδότωι ἐπιδέδεικται.	Perseus (Arrian, Anab. 5.6.5)	omission	Extent difference: the stored Perseus witness_text ENDS at ὀνομάζουσιν; the entire final clause καὶ οὐκ ἀμαυροῖς τεκμηρίοις ὅτι ταύτῃ ἔχει Ἡροδότῳ ἐπιδέδεικται is absent from the witness. The candidate (BNJ) carries the fuller fragment. This is an omission/abridgement in the retrieved witness, not a word-substitution; classified omission because the witness lacks text the candidate prints. (The candidate's ταύτηι/῾Ηροδότωι in this clause again differ from standard subscript only by adscript encoding, but cannot be collated since the witness does not reach this clause.)

Witness: Scaife/Perseus. Verdict: CONVERGED (apparatus complete, publishable as BNJ-based).
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-f301.json.