A NEW HERODIANIC TREATISE ON DICHRONA AND A NEW FRAGMENT OF HIPPONAX

The paper provides the editio princeps (with apparatus criticus and apparatus fontium) of a Greek grammatical treatise dealing with the quantity of anceps vowels or dichrona (α, ι, υ): it is preserved in a codex unicus dating to the 14th century (Par. gr. 2646). While its author- ship is still uncertain, most of the doctrines presented in it seem to go back to the 2nd cen- tury grammarian Herodian. The introduction provides a context for this remarkable text. It also discusses its relationship with the few other known treatises On dichrona, as well as the literary quotations it carries, the most remar- kable being a new fragment (two words) of the archaic lyric poet Hipponax.