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This is a papyrus fragment of scholia on the first book of Callimachus' Aetia, commenting on the passage around fragment 7, where the poem turns to the return voyage of the Argonauts. The notes explain that Kyta was the homeland of Medea, that Thessaly was anciently called Hellas, and that Callimachus calls the Greeks Iaones after the Athenians, citing Homer and the Athenian historian Clidemus.
The Aetia survives only in fragments, and ancient commentaries preserve much of what is known of its lost passages and its learned sources. This set is not part of the Florentine scholia on the poem, and shows a commentator unpacking the geographical and ethnic allusions that fill Callimachus' verse, while preserving a citation of a lost local historian.
About this edition. The Greek text comes from the Eulogikon open corpus of public-domain editions (standard reference: Pfeiffer I (1949), scholia to fr. 7.19ff.). 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).