Hellanicus of Lesbos
FGrH 4 F 54 — Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 15.679f–680a Converged + audit-sound
περὶ δὲ τῶν ἐν Αἰγύπτωι αἰεὶ ἀνθούντων στεφάνων Ἑλλάνικος ἐν τοῖς Αἰγυπτιακοῖς οὕτως γράφει· «πόλις ἐπιποταμίη, Τίνδιον ὄνομα αὐτῇ, θεῶν ὁμήγυρις· καὶ ἱερὸν μέγα καὶ ἁγνὸν ἐν μέσηι τῇ πόλει λίθινον, καὶ θύρετρα λίθινα. ἔσω τοῦ ἱεροῦ ἄκανθαι πεφύκασι λευκαὶ καὶ μέλαιναι. ἐπ’ αὐταῖσι στέφανοι ἐπιβέβληνται ἄνω τῆς ἀκάνθου τοῦ ἄνθεος, καὶ ῥοιῆς ἄνθος καὶ ἀμπέλου πεπλεγμένοι· καὶ οὗτοι αἰεὶ ἀνθέουσι. τοὺς στεφάνους ἀπέθεντο οἱ θεοὶ ἐν Αἰγύπτωι πυθόμενοι βασιλεύειν τὸν Βάβυν, ὅς ἐστι Τυφών.»
On the ever-blooming garlands in Egypt Hellanikos in the Aigyptiaka writes: 'A city on the river, Tindion by name, an assembly-place of gods; and a great and holy stone temple in the middle of the city, with stone doorways. Inside the temple grow acanthus-plants, white and black. On them garlands are laid above the acanthus flower, woven also of pomegranate-blossom and vine; and these bloom forever. The gods laid up these garlands in Egypt when they learned that Babys — who is Typhon — was to be king.'
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 (Athenaeus, Deipn. 15 (Kaibel, open-corpus tlg0008 grc3)) 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 |
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| ἐπ’ αὐταῖσι (στέφανοι) | αὐταῖσι | αὐτῇσι | word-variant (genuine stem form αι vs η; confirmed by NFD: candidate ALPHA+IOTA+perispomeni vs witness ETA+perispomeni+ypogegrammeni — BNJ vs Kaibel Ionic/dialect form, NOT iota adscript/subscript) | |
| καὶ ῥοιῆς ἄνθος / ἄνθους | ἄνθος | ἄνθους | word-variant (case: nominative/accusative ἄνθος vs genitive ἄνθους, parallel to ῥοιῆς; confirmed by extra UPSILON codepoint in witness) | |
Witness: Athenaeus, Deipn. 15 (Kaibel, open-corpus tlg0008 grc3). 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-hellan-fgrh4-f54.json.