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Additional Fragments and Testimonia gathers later additions to Preller's collection of Polemon of Ilium, the antiquarian and traveller of the second century BC known as the Periegete. His works are lost and survive only in quotations. This set includes two Oxyrhynchus papyri, one apparently citing his work on the Athenian Acropolis and one quoting his reply to Antigonus and Adaeus, a lexicon entry citing his Foundations of cities on Melitaean lap dogs, a scholion on Euripides' Orestes, and a Delphic inscription naming a Polemon of Ilium.
The additions show how discoveries of papyri and inscriptions continue to extend the evidence for Hellenistic scholarship. They confirm the range of Polemon's interests, from Athenian monuments and the founding of cities in Italy and Sicily to polemics against other scholars. The inscription, a Delphic list of 177/6 BC, names Polemon son of Milesius of Ilium as an honorary proxenos; if, as is often thought, this is the Periegete, it gives a rare fixed date in his life.
About this edition. The Greek text comes from the Eulogikon open corpus of public-domain editions (standard reference: Addenda to Preller (frr. 4 bis, 37 bis, 65 bis, 75 bis)). 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).