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Hecataeus of Miletus

FGrH 1 F 36a — Agathemerus, Geographiae informatio 1,1  Converged + audit-sound
οἱ μὲν οὖν παλαιοὶ τὴν οἰκουμένην ἔγραφον στρογγύλην, μέσην δὲ κεῖσθαι τὴν Ἑλλάδα, καὶ ταύτης Δελφούς· τὸν ὀμφαλὸν γὰρ ἔχειν τῆς γῆς. πρῶτος δὲ Δημόκριτος … συνεῖδεν, ὅτι προμήκης ἐστὶν ἡ γῆ, ἡμιόλιον τὸ μῆκος τοῦ πλάτους ἔχουσα· συνήινεσε τούτωι καὶ Δικαίαρχος ὁ Περιπατητικός. Εὐδοξος δὲ τὸ μῆκος διπλοῦν τοῦ πλάτους· ὁ δὲ ᾽Ερατοσθένης πλεῖον τοῦ διπλοῦ.
The ancients drew the inhabited world as round, with Greece in the middle and Delphi in the middle of Greece, for they held it to be the navel of the earth. Demokritos was first to perceive that the earth is oblong, its length one and a half times its breadth; Dikaiarchos the Peripatetic agreed. Eudoxos said the length was double the breadth; Eratosthenes, more than double.

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 (Agathemerus, Geogr. informatio (open-corpus tlg0090)) within the overlapping span; encoding and orthography are folded. Collation codepoint-verified and adversarially audited (2026-06-26).

Lemma / locusBNJ baseWitnessTypeNote
πρῶτος δὲ Δημόκριτος … συνεῖδενΔημόκριτος … συνεῖδεν (editorial ellipsis)Δημόκριτος, πολύπειρος ἀνὴρ, συνεῖδενword-omissionCONFIRMED-real: witness retains 'πολύπειρος ἀνήρ'; candidate (BNJ) elides it with U+2026 ellipsis. Verified present in witness, absent in candidate.
Δικαίαρχος ὁ Περιπατητικός ./·Περιπατητικός. (U+002E full stop)Περιπατητικός· (U+0387 ano teleia)punctuationCONFIRMED-real: codepoint-verified U+002E vs U+0387.
τὸ μῆκος διπλοῦν τοῦ πλάτους ·/,πλάτους· (U+00B7 raised dot, second/Eudoxos occurrence)πλάτους, (U+002C comma)punctuationCONFIRMED-real: codepoint-verified U+00B7 vs U+002C at the Eudoxos clause (not the earlier ἔχουσα· which agrees).
Witness: Agathemerus, Geogr. informatio (open-corpus tlg0090). 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-f36a.json.