Arrian
Book 31
§1 εὖτε δὲ παρέπλωον τὴν χώρην τὴν Ἰχθυοφάγων, λόγον ἀκούουσι περὶ νήσου τινός ἣ κέεται μὲν ἀπέχουσα τῆς ταύτῃ ἠπείρου σταδίους ἐς ἑκατόν, ἐρήμη δέ ἐστιν οἰκητόρων.
§2 ταύτην ἱρὴν Ἡλίου ἔλεγον εἶναι οἱ ἐπιχώριοι καὶ Νόσαλα καλέεσθαι, οὐδέ τινα ἀνθρώπων καταίρειν ἐθέλειν ἐς αὐτήν· ὅστις δὲ ἂν ἀπειρίῃ προσσχῇ, γίνεσθαι ἀφανέα.
§3 ἀλλὰ λέγει Νέαρχος κέρκουρόν σφιν ἕνα πλήρωμα ἔχοντα Αἰγυπτίων οὐ πόρρω τῆς νήσου ταύτης γενέσθαι ἀφανέα, καὶ ὑπὲρ τούτου τοὺς ἡγεμόνας τοῦ πλόου ἰσχυρίζεσθαι ὅτι ἄρα κατάραντες ὑπʼ ἀγνοίης ἐς τὴν νῆσον γένοιντο ἀφανέες.
§4 Νέαρχος δὲ πέμπει κύκλῳ περὶ τῆν νῆσον τριηκόντορον, κελεύσας μὴ κατασχεῖν μὲν ἐς τὴν νῆσον, ἐμβοᾶν δὲ τοῖς ἀνθρώποις ὡς μάλιστα ἐν χρῷ παραπλώοντας, καὶ τὸν κυβερνήτην οὐνομάζοντας καὶ ὅτου ἄλλου οὐκ ἀφανὲς τὸ οὔνομα.
§5 ὡς δὲ οὐδένα ὑπακούειν, τότε δὴ αὐτὸς λέγει πλῶσαι ἐς τὴν νῆσον, καὶ κατασχεῖν προσαναγκάσαι τοὺς ναύτας οὐκ ἐθέλοντας, καὶ ἐκβῆναι αὐτὸς καὶ ἐλέγξαι κενὸν μῦθον ἐόντα τὸν περὶ τῇ νήσῳ λόγον.
§6 ἀκοῦσαι δὲ καὶ ἄλλον λόγον λεγόμενον, οἰκῆσαι τὴν νῆσον ταύτην μίαν τῶν Νηρηίδων· τὸ δὲ οὔνομα οὐ λέγεσθαι τῆς Νηρηίδος. ταύτῃ δὲ ὅστις πελάσειε, τούτῳ δὲ συγγίνεσθαι μέν, ἰχθὺν δὲ αὐτὸν ἐξ ἀνθρώπου ποιέουσαν ἐμβάλλειν ἐς τὸν πόντον.
§7 ἥλιον δὲ ἀχθεσθέντα τῇ Νηρηίδι κελεύειν μετοικίζεσθαι αὐτὴν ἐκ τῆς νήσου· τὴν δὲ ὁμολογέειν μὲν ὅτι ἐξοικισθήσεται, δέεσθαι δέ οἱ τὸ πάθημα παυθῆναι, καὶ τὸν Ἥλιον ὑποδέξασθαι·
§8 τοὺς δὲ σὴ ἀνθρώπους οὕστινας ἰχθύας ἐξ ἀνθρώπων ἐπεποιήκει κατελεήσαντα ἀνθρώπους αὖθις ἐξ ἰχθύων ποιῆσαι, καὶ ἀπὸ τούτων τῶν Ἰχθυοφάγων τὸ γένος καὶ ἐς Ἁλέξανδρον κατελθεῖν.
§9 καὶ ταῦτα ὅτι ψεύδεα ἐξελέγχει Νέαρχος, οὐκ ἐπαινέω αὐτὸν ἔγωγε τῆς σχολῆς τε καὶ σοφίης, οὔτε κάρτα χαλεπὰ ἐξελεγχθῆναι ἐόντα, ταλαίπωρόν τε ἐὸν γινώσκων τοὺς παλαιοὺς λόγους ἐπιλεγόμενον ἐξελέγχειν ἐόντας ψευδέας.
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Hercher 1885
Teubner
Hercher & Eberhard, Teubner, 1885 · 1885
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Rudolf Hercher (1821–1878) was a German classical scholar who edited a wide range of Greek prose texts for the Teubner series, including the Greek epistolographers and several volumes of Greek historians. His output was prodigious, and while some of his editions have been superseded, many remain the most recent critical text available for minor Greek prose authors.

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Hercher's Teubner editions, produced during the mid-19th century, provide critical texts of Greek prose authors — many of whom have received little editorial attention since. The editions are characterised by a thorough apparatus criticus and occasionally bold emendation. For many of the texts Hercher edited, no more recent critical edition exists.

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