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Reviews
This is a magnificent edition. Blemishes are rare. In 5, it is not clear why
open brackets are not supplied at the beginnings of lines 1, 2, 4, and 10, or
why in 15 and 17 (e.g., the end of line 3 and the corresponding lemma in the
commentary) some of the line ends do not have closing brackets. In Tav. 9
the image of 10 is upside down. There is a reversal of identities between the
physical description of 26 recto and verso and the corresponding images on
Tav. 20. I mention such items not to carp, but to prove that I have read this
volume with due care, not to mention profit and pleasure. The editor's style
is personable, witty, and honest. The volume's layout requires, however, some
perhaps unnecessary repetitions, particularly when content summaries closely
paraphrase translations just given. There is a negligibly irksome tendency to
double dip when references are given using both "ad esempio" and "etc." The
indices include the welcome index of names and subjects mentioned above as
well as an index of symbols and abbreviations (pp. 275-277) that seems a quaint
but useful throwback to some papyrus editions of old. These include PLond.
4, to which CPR 30 is now an eminently worthy companion.
Loyola University Chicago
James G. Keenan
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