Hellanicus of Lesbos

FGrH 4 T 3 — Gellius, Noctes Atticae 15.23 Converged + audit-sound

Hellanicus Herodotus Thucydides, historiae scriptores, in iisdem fere temporibus laude ingenti floruerunt et non nimis longe distantibus fuerunt aetatibus. (2) nam Hellanicus initio belli Peloponnesiaci fuisse quinque et sexaginta annos natus videtur, Herodotus tres et quinquaginta, Thucydides quadraginta. scriptum est hoc in libro undecimo Pamphilae.

Hellanikos, Herodotos and Thucydides, writers of history, flourished with great renown at nearly the same period and were of not greatly differing ages. At the start of the Peloponnesian War (432/1) Hellanikos seems to have been 65, Herodotos 53, Thucydides 40. This is written in the eleventh book of Pamphile.

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 (Gellius, Noctes Atticae 15.23) 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
iisdem	iisdem	isdem	spelling-variant	CONFIRMED REAL. Ablative plural of idem: candidate (BNJ-base) 'iisdem' (ii-) vs on-disk witness (Perseus phi1254.phi001.perseus-lat2) 'isdem' (i-). Genuine word-form variant (letter count differs), not a u-v/i-j or case fold. Token position 6 of 44; all other 43 word-tokens match after folding case and the editorial (2) marker.
Hellanicus Herodotus Thucydides	Hellanicus Herodotus Thucydides,	HELLANICUS, Herodotus, Thucydides,	punctuation (serial comma / asyndeton)	MISSED BY SPECIALIST. Real punctuation difference: witness separates the three historians' names with commas (after Hellanicus and after Herodotus); candidate presents them asyndetically with no internal commas (only the comma after Thucydides is shared). Per SETTLED POLICY punctuation = REAL apparatus, not encoding. Verified: candidate segment before 'historiae' contains exactly 1 comma vs witness's 3. Case difference (HELLANICUS small-caps lemma vs Hellanicus) remains a separate, correctly-classified encoding diff.

Witness: Gellius, Noctes Atticae 15.23. Verdict: CONVERGED (apparatus corrected).
Open-corpus witness family: urn:cts:latinLit. 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-t3.json.