A Fable Recovered

Under the title ‘Bilingual Document’ H. A. Sanders published in 1947 a small text written on the verso of a piece of papyrus in a cursive hand, consisting of three lines of Latin followed by eleven of Greek, all incomplete. On the recto was a Latin legal text, probably a record of court proceedings, ascribed to the late first or early second century A.D. It was natural to assume, as Sanders does, that the text on the verso was also legal, the more so as a combination of Greek and Latin is not uncommon in records of judicial proceedings, especially in the late third or early fourth century A.D

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