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Letter Requesting Hypsicrates' Komodoumenoi (P.Oxy. 2192) is part of a private letter of the second century AD, found at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt. The writer asks for copies of books six and seven of Hypsicrates' Komodoumenoi, a work on persons mocked in comedy, and adds that Harpocration says they are among Pollio's books and that others probably have them too. The passage given here is only a few lines long.
The letter is a well-known witness to how scholarly books circulated among readers in Roman Egypt, through private networks of copying and lending. Some scholars identify the Harpocration and Pollio named here with the lexicographers Valerius Harpocration and Valerius Pollio. It also preserves the title of a lost work on the targets of Attic comedy.
About this edition. The Greek text comes from the Eulogikon open corpus of public-domain editions (standard reference: P.Oxy. XVIII 2192; Austin, CGFP (1973) 344). Every word has been analyzed with odyCy, a neural language model for Ancient Greek — click or tap any word for its dictionary form, part of speech, and complete morphology, together with the full entry from the Liddell–Scott–Jones Greek–English Lexicon (LSJ).