Hecataeus of Miletus

FGrH 1 F 36b — Herodotus, Histories 4.36 Converged + audit-sound

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

I laugh when I see that many have drawn maps of the world, none of them giving a sensible account: they depict Ocean flowing round the earth, which they make circular as if drawn by a compass, and they 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 (BNJ) ~ ὁρέων (Perseus)	Perseus tlg0016.tlg001.perseus-grc2:4.36.2	word-variant	Genuine morphological/dialectal variant of the participle. Perseus prints the uncontracted Ionic (Herodotean) form ὁρέων (ὁ-ρ-έ-ω-ν, 5 letters); the BNJ-based candidate prints the contracted ὁρῶν (ὁ-ρ-ῶ-ν, 4 letters). Same lexeme (ὁράω 'see'), different contraction state — substantive, not encoding.
—	νόον ἐχόντως (BNJ, two words) ~ νοονεχόντως (Perseus, one word)	Perseus tlg0016.tlg001.perseus-grc2:4.36.2	word-division	Identical letter sequence, different word-division. BNJ divides as νόον ἐχόντως ('having sense' = adverbial phrase, gen.? acc. νόον + adverb ἐχόντως); Perseus runs them into a single adverb νοονεχόντως. No letters added or removed — purely a division/segmentation variant.
—	ἐξηγησάμενον, (BNJ comma) ~ ἐξηγησάμενον· (Perseus ano teleia U+0387)	Perseus tlg0016.tlg001.perseus-grc2:4.36.2	punctuation	At the clause boundary before οἳ, the candidate prints a comma; Perseus prints a Greek high dot (ano teleia, U+0387). Editorial pointing differs; the words are identical.
—	γῆν, (BNJ comma) ~ γῆν (Perseus, no stop)	Perseus tlg0016.tlg001.perseus-grc2:4.36.2	punctuation	After γῆν (before ἐοῦσαν) the candidate inserts a comma; Perseus has no punctuation there, running γῆν ἐοῦσαν together. Pointing-only difference.

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.json.