Hellanicus of Lesbos

FGrH 4 F 67 — Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 11.462ab; Ἐθνῶν Ὀνομασίαι Converged + audit-sound

οἶδα δὲ καὶ Ἑλλάνικον ἐν Ἐθνῶν Ὀνομασίαις λέγοντα ὅτι «Λιβύων τῶν νομάδων τινὲς οὐδὲν ἄλλο κέκτηνται ἢ κύλικα καὶ μάχαιραν καὶ ὑδρίαν, καὶ ὅτι οἰκίας ἔχουσιν ἐξ ἀνθερίκου πεποιημένας μικρὰς ὅσον σκιᾶς ἕνεκα, ἃς καὶ περιφέρουσιν ὅπου ἂν πορεύωνται.»

I know that Hellanikos too, in the Names of Peoples, says that 'some of the nomad Libyans own nothing but a cup, a knife and a water-jug, and that they have small houses made of asphodel-stalk, just for shade, which they carry about wherever they go.'

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. 11 (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
λέγοντα ( FHG I 57 ) ὅτι	λέγοντα ὅτι (no source-reference in the running text)	λέγοντα ( FHG I 57 ) ὅτι (Kaibel inserts the Müller FHG source-reference inline)	witness-editorial-insertion (apparatus/reference; not part of the fragment text)
quotation framing «…»	«Λιβύων … πορεύωνται.» (BNJ guillemets mark the quoted fragment)	no quotation marks (Kaibel runs the quotation unmarked)	punctuation (editorial quotation marks)

Witness: Athenaeus, Deipn. 11 (Kaibel, open-corpus tlg0008 grc3). Verdict: CONVERGED-IN-SPAN.
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-f67.json.