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Hecataeus of Miletus

FGrH 1 T 11a — Strabo, Geographica 1.1.1  Converged + audit-sound
τῆς τοῦ φιλοσόφου πραγματείας εἶναι νομίζομεν, εἴπερ ἄλλην τινά, καὶ τὴν γεωγραφικήν … οἵ τε γὰρ πρῶτοι θαρρήσαντες αὐτῆς ἅψασθαι τοιοῦτοί τινες ὑπῆρξαν· Ὁμηρός τε καὶ ᾽Αναξίμανδρος ὁ Μιλήσιος καὶ Ἑκαταῖος ὁ πολίτης αὐτοῦ, καθὼς καὶ ᾽Ερατοσθένης φησί, καὶ Δημόκριτος δὲ καὶ Εὐδοξος καὶ Δικαίαρχος καὶ ῎Εφορος καὶ ἄλλοι πλείους· ἔτι δὲ οἱ μετὰ τούτους, ᾽Ερατοσθένης τε καὶ Πολύβιος καὶ Ποσειδώνιος, ἄνδρες φιλόσοφοι.
We consider that geography too, as much as anything, forms part of the philosopher's subject ... for the first to venture upon it were such men as these: Homer, Anaximander of Miletus and Hecataeus his fellow citizen, as Eratosthenes also says, and Demokritos, Eudoxos, Dikaiarchos, Ephoros and many others; and after these Eratosthenes, Polybios and Poseidonios, all philosophers.

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 / locusBNJ baseWitnessTypeNote
… (U+2026, after καὶ τὴν γεωγραφικήν)Perseus tlg0099.tlg001.perseus-grc2 1.1.1abridgementEditorial ellipsis. The candidate replaces the witness clause 'γεωγραφικήν, ἣν νῦν προῃρήμεθα ἐπισκοπεῖν. ὅτι δʼ οὐ φαύλως νομίζομεν ἐκ πολλῶν δῆλον·' (witness tokens 11b-23) with '…'. Deliberate abridgement of the testimonium, NOT a textual variant. The trailing comma on the witness's 'γεωγραφικήν,' falls inside this elided clause, so it is subsumed by the abridgement and is not recorded as an independent punctuation variant.
ὑπῆρξαν·Perseus tlg0099.tlg001.perseus-grc2 1.1.1punctuationAfter ὑπῆρξαν the candidate prints an ano teleia '·' (U+00B7); Perseus prints a comma ',' (U+002C). Substantive punctuation choice (colon-stop vs comma before the list of geographers).
Ὁμηρός (initial Ο dasia only, U+1F49; raw ῾Ομηρός = U+1FFE + U+039F)Perseus tlg0099.tlg001.perseus-grc2 1.1.1word-variantAccent difference on the name Homer. Perseus prints 'Ὅμηρός' with the initial omicron carrying dasia + oxia (U+1F4D) — the enclitic-throwback acute from the following enclitic τε; the candidate prints 'Ὁμηρός' (nfc U+1F49 / raw ῾Ο) with dasia ONLY, no throwback oxia. Both keep the lexical tonos on final -ός (U+03CC). Genuine accent variant (missing enclitic-throwback acute), not a breathing-encoding artifact — verified by re-attaching the candidate's spacing breathing and comparing full diacritic content.
Ἑκαταῖος ὁ πολίτηςPerseus tlg0099.tlg001.perseus-grc2 1.1.1punctuationNo comma after Ἑκαταῖος in the candidate ('Ἑκαταῖος ὁ πολίτης αὐτοῦ'); Perseus sets off the apposition with a comma ('Ἑκαταῖος, ὁ πολίτης αὐτοῦ'). Substantive punctuation divergence. (The Ε-initial breathing on Ἑκαταῖος itself — candidate raw ῾Ε U+1FFE+U+0395 vs Perseus U+1F19 — is dasia in both, i.e. encoding-only, recorded in encoding_diffs.)
φησί,Perseus tlg0099.tlg001.perseus-grc2 1.1.1punctuationAfter Ἐρατοσθένης φησί the candidate prints a comma ',' (U+002C, 'φησί,'); Perseus prints an ano teleia '·' (U+00B7, 'φησί·'). Substantive punctuation divergence — mirror-image of the ὑπῆρξαν case (the two witnesses swap comma/ano-teleia at these two boundaries).
Εὐδοξος (υ = psili only, U+1F50)Perseus tlg0099.tlg001.perseus-grc2 1.1.1word-variantAccent difference on the name Eudoxos. Perseus prints 'Εὔδοξος' with the upsilon carrying psili + oxia (U+1F54); the candidate prints 'Εὐδοξος' with the upsilon carrying psili ONLY, no acute (U+1F50). Genuine accent variant (missing acute on the second syllable). Initial Ε is bare U+0395 in both, so no breathing question arises. NOTE: this difference was NOT recorded in the prior apparatus and is added by this re-collation.
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-t11a.json.