(101) Again the Tattoo Elegy

S. R. Slings, ZPE 98 (1993) 29 informs us that the publication by M. Huys, in Papyri Bruxellenses Graecae, ii/22 (Brussels, 1991) of another portion of the Sorbonne papyrus part of which was published by M. Papathomopoulos in Recherches de papyrologie, 2 (Paris, 1962), 99–111 ‘refutes a conjecture of Lloyd-Jones, namely that this poem is the work of Phanocles’. He may have been misled by Huys, who (p. 79) wrote of me ‘Il avait reconnu que le poème était proche des fragments préservés d’Alexandre d’Étolie, de Phanoclès et d’Hermésianax, mais optait pour Phanoclès comme auteur le plus plausible.’ That may seem to imply that I conjectured Phanocles to have been the author; but though I compared the author’s style and vocabulary with those of the fragments of Phanocles, I did not conclude that that author was Phanocles, as anyone who reads with a moderate degree of care the article to which Slings refers will notice.1

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