Hellanicus of Lesbos

FGrH 4 F 66 — Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 10.447c; Κτίσεις Ἐθνῶν καὶ Πόλεων Converged + audit-sound

Ἑλλάνικος δ’ ἐν Κτίσεσι καὶ ἐκ ῥιζῶν, φησι, κατασκευάζεται τὸ βρῦτον, γράφων ὧδε· «πίνουσι δὲ βρῦτον ἔκ τινων ῥιζῶν, καθάπερ οἱ Θρᾶικες ἐκ τῶν κριθῶν.»

Hellanikos in the Foundations (says) that brouton (beer) is also made from roots, writing thus: 'They drink brouton from certain roots, just as the Thracians do from barley.'

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. 10 (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
( FHG I 59 )	(absent)	( FHG I 59 )	editorial-insertion	REAL — confirmed: witness contains '( FHG I 59 )' after γράφων ὧδε, before the colon; candidate omits it. Kaibel source-citation insert, not a Hellanikos word-variant (coverage/editorial, not apparatus).

Witness: Athenaeus, Deipn. 10 (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-f66.json.