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The Scholia Florentina are ancient notes on the opening of Callimachus' Aetia, preserved on a papyrus in Florence (PSI XI 1219). They comment on the prologue, where the poet answers the critics he calls Telchines, and they name several of those critics, including Asclepiades, Posidippus and Praxiphanes of Mytilene. They then turn to the poet's dream of meeting the Muses on Helicon, the sacrifice to the Graces on Paros and the rites at Anaphe and Lindos. The papyrus is damaged, and many lines are incomplete.
This is one of our most important sources for the literary quarrels of Hellenistic Alexandria, since it identifies the poets whom Callimachus was thought to be attacking. It is also early direct evidence of ancient scholarship on Callimachus, and it helps modern editors reconstruct the fragmentary Aetia.
About this edition. The Greek text comes from the Eulogikon open corpus of public-domain editions (standard reference: PSI XI 1219 fr. 1; Pfeiffer I pp. 3, 11). 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).