Hecataeus of Miletus

FGrH 1 F 36b — Herodotos 4.36 Converged + audit-sound

γελῶ δὲ ὁρῶν γῆς περιόδους γράψαντας πολλοὺς ἤδη καὶ οὐδένα νόον ἐχόντως ἐξηγησάμενον, οἳ Ὠκεανόν τε ῥέοντα γράφουσι πέριξ τὴν γῆν, ἐοῦσαν κυκλοτερέα ὡς ἀπὸ τόρνου, καὶ τὴν Ἀσίην τῆι Εὐρώπηι ποιεύντων ἴσην.

I laugh when I see that many have drawn maps of the earth, none with sense, who draw Ocean flowing round the earth as if it were circular, made by compasses, and make Asia equal to Europe.

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
—	ὁρῶν	Perseus/Scaife Hdt. 4.36.2 (urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0016.tlg001.perseus-grc2)	word-variant	Target (BNJ/Jacoby) ὁρῶν = ὁ ρ ῶ(U+1FF6) ν (Attic-contracted) vs witness ὁρέων = ὁ ρ έ(U+03AD) ω(U+03C9) ν (Ionic uncontracted). Genuine substantive word-variant: contracted vs uncontracted present participle of ὁράω. Both NFC.
—	νόον ἐχόντως	Perseus/Scaife Hdt. 4.36.2	word-division	Target prints two accented words νόον / ἐχόντως (ν ό(U+03CC) ο ν \| ἐ(U+1F10, psili) χ ό ν τ ω ς); witness glues them into one unaccented form νοονεχόντως (ν ο ο ν ε χ ό ν τ ω ς). Bare letter-string identical (νοονεχοντως); difference is word-division plus the lost ad-hoc accents on νόον and the psili on ἐ-. BNJ/Jacoby = two words; Perseus = single glued token. Classified word-division (carries an accentuation component).
—	ἐξηγησάμενον,	Perseus/Scaife Hdt. 4.36.2	punctuation	After ἐξηγησάμενον: target comma ',' (U+002C); witness Greek raised dot '·' (U+00B7, ano teleia). Punctuation only.
—	γῆν,	Perseus/Scaife Hdt. 4.36.2	punctuation	After γῆν: target has comma ',' (U+002C) before ἐοῦσαν; witness has no punctuation (space only). Punctuation only.

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-f36b-jacoby.json.