Hellanicus of Lesbos

FGrH 4 F 4 — Dionysios Hal., Antiquitates Romanae 1.28 Converged + audit-sound

Ἑλλάνικος δὲ ὁ Λέσβιος τοὺς Τυρρηνούς φησι Πελασγοὺς πρότερον καλουμένους, ἐπειδὴ κατώικησαν ἐν Ἰταλίαι, παραλαβεῖν ἣν νῦν ἔχουσι προσηγορίαν. ἔχει δὲ αὐτῶι ἐν Φορωνίδι ὁ λόγος ὧδε· «τοῦ Πελασγοῦ τοῦ βασιλέως αὐτῶν καὶ Μενίππης τῆς Πηνειοῦ ἐγένετο Φράστωρ, τοῦ δὲ Ἀμύντωρ, τοῦ δὲ Τευταμίδης, τοῦ δὲ Νάνας. ἐπὶ τούτου βασιλεύοντος οἱ Πελασγοὶ ὑπ’ Ἑλλήνων ἀνέστησαν, καὶ ἐπὶ Σπινῆτι ποταμῶι ἐν τῶι Ἰονίωι κόλπωι τὰς νῆας καταλιπόντες Κρότωνα πόλιν ἐν μεσογαίωι εἷλον, καὶ ἐντεῦθεν ὁρμώμενοι τὴν νῦν καλεομένην Τυρσηνίην ἔκτισαν.»

Hellanikos of Lesbos says the Tyrrhenians, formerly called Pelasgians, took their present name once they settled in Italy. In the Phoronis his account runs: 'From Pelasgos their king and Menippe daughter of Peneios was born Phrastor, then Amyntor, then Teutamides, then Nanas. In whose reign the Pelasgians were driven out by the Greeks, and leaving their ships on the river Spines in the Ionian gulf they took the inland city Croton, and setting out thence founded what is now called Tyrrhenia.'

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
—	βασιλέως	Perseus (tlg0081.tlg001.perseus-grc2:1.28.3)	word-variant	Candidate (BNJ) τοῦ βασιλέως (Attic gen. sg. of βασιλεύς, -έως); Perseus witness reads βασιλέος (Ionic/uncontracted -έος). Substantive dialectal genitive variant. Codepoints differ only at U+03C9 ω (cand) vs U+03BF ο (wit); all other letters identical.
—	βασιλεύοντος	Perseus (tlg0081.tlg001.perseus-grc2:1.28.3)	word-variant	Candidate (BNJ) ἐπὶ τούτου βασιλεύοντος — gen. sg. pres. ptcpl (genitive absolute, agreeing with τούτου). Perseus witness reads βασιλεύοντες — nom. pl. ptcpl. Substantive morphological/syntactic variant (-οντος vs -οντες). Letters identical through βασιλευοντ-; differ at ending ος vs ες.
—	μεσογαίωι	Perseus (tlg0081.tlg001.perseus-grc2:1.28.3)	word-variant	Candidate (BNJ) ἐν μεσογαίῳ (stem μεσογαι-, αι); Perseus witness ἐν μεσογείῳ (stem μεσογει-, ει). Substantive stem-vowel variant αι vs ει (the contested vowel precedes the root iota; the word-final iota adscript/subscript is a separate encoding matter, see encoding_diffs). After iota-normalisation the bare-letter stems are μεσογαιω- vs μεσογειω-.
—	εἷλον,	Perseus (tlg0081.tlg001.perseus-grc2:1.28.3)	punctuation	Candidate (BNJ) has a comma after εἷλον (...Κρότωνα πόλιν ἐν μεσογαίῳ εἷλον, καὶ ἐντεῦθεν...); Perseus witness has no comma (...εἷλον καὶ ἐντεῦθεν...). Word identical (εἷλον); editorial 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-hellan-fgrh4-f4.json.