Hellanicus of Lesbos

FGrH 4 F 71 — Scholia on Homer, Odyssey 8.294; Περὶ Χίου Κτίσεως Converged in-span

Σίντιες ἐκαλοῦντο οἱ Λήμνιοι, ὡς Ἑλλάνικος ἱστορεῖ ἐν τῶι Περὶ Χίου Κτίσεως τὸν τρόπον τοιοῦτον· «ἐκ τῆς Τενέδου ὤιχοντο εἰς τὸν Μέλανα κόλπον, καὶ πρῶτον μὲν εἰς Λῆμνον ἀφίκοντο. ἦσαν δὲ αὐτόθι κατοικοῦντες Θρᾶικές τινες οὐ πολλοὶ ἄνθρωποι· ἐγεγόνεισαν δὲ μιξέλληνες. τούτους ἐκάλουν οἱ περίοικοι Σίντιας, ὅτι ἦσαν αὐτῶν δημιουργοί τινες πολεμιστήρια ὅπλα ἐργαζόμενοι. τούτοις συνώικισαν ἑαυτοὺς ἀναμὶξ ὡς ἦλθον αὐτόθι, καὶ κατέλιπον ναῦς πέντε.»

The Lemnians were called Sinties, as Hellanikos relates in his On the Foundation of Chios, in this manner: 'From Tenedos they went to the Black Gulf, and first reached Lemnos. There dwelt some few Thracian people, who had become half-Greek. These the neighbours called Sinties, because some among them were craftsmen who fashioned weapons of war. With these they jointly settled, mingled together as they arrived there, and they left behind five ships.'

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 (Scholia in Homeri Odysseam (Sintians/Chios scholion, Hellanikos Περὶ Χίου Κτίσεως)) 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
cand tok 9 / Περὶ	Περὶ (U+03A0 Π)	περὶ (U+03C0 π)	capitalization
cand tok 11 / Κτίσεως	Κτίσεως (U+039A Κ)	κτίσεως (U+03BA κ)	capitalization
cand tok 14 / τοιοῦτον	τοιοῦτον· (U+00B7 ano teleia)	τοιοῦτον. (U+002E full stop)	punctuation
cand tok 15 / «ἐκ	«ἐκ (U+00AB editorial guillemet opening quoted block)	ἐκ (no quotation mark)	editorial-quotation-mark
cand tok 21-22 / Μέλανα κόλπον	Μέλανα κόλπον, (comma after κόλπον; Black Gulf as unit)	Μέλανα, κόλπον (comma after Μέλανα)	punctuation-placement	word sequence identical; single comma-site difference
cand tok 37 / ἄνθρωποι	ἄνθρωποι· (U+00B7 ano teleia)	ἄνθρωποι, (U+002C comma)	punctuation
cand tok 48 / αὐτῶν	αὐτῶν (full word)	αὐ- (U+002D; window truncates mid-word, then switches to Sturzius/Tzetzes apparatus matter)	coverage-truncation	NOT a word-variant; αὐτῶν not contradicted, simply not fully present

Witness: Scholia in Homeri Odysseam (Sintians/Chios scholion, Hellanikos Περὶ Χίου Κτίσεως). Verdict: CONVERGED-IN-SPAN. In-span: the candidate extends slightly beyond the open-corpus witness; the apparatus covers only the witnessed portion.
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-f71.json.