| StorageSite | UCL Special Collections |
| Level | Item |
| Reference Number | MS FRAG/GRE/1 |
| Title | Euripides' Medea [Fragment] |
| Date | 4th Century - 5th Century? |
| Description | Minute fragment from Euripides' Medea, parchment. From a codex, main body text in brown in a rounded uncial hand. There is text on the recto and verso, but the recto text is less legible.
Recto: vv.1057-1062
ἔασον αὐτούς, ὦ τάλαν, φεῖσαι τέκνω]⸢ν⸣
ἐκεῖ μεθ᾽ ἡμῶν ζῶντες εὐφρανοῦ]σί σε.
μὰ τοὺς παρ᾽ Ἅιδῃ νερτέρους ἀλά]στορας,
οὔτοι ποτ᾽ ἔσται τοῦθ᾽ ὅπως ἐχ]θροῖς ἐγὼ
παῖδας παρήσω τοὺς ἐμοὺς καθυ]⸢β⸣ρίσαι.
πάντως σφ᾽ ἀνάγκη κατθανεῖν:] ἐπεὶ ⸢δ⸣[ὲ χρή,
Verso: vv. 1086-1092
σο⸢φ⸣[ίας ἕνεκεν, πάσαισι μὲν οὔ,
παῦρο⸢ν⸣ [δὲ γένος, – <μίαν> ἐν πολλαῖς,
εὕροις ⸢ἂ⸣[ν ἴσως –
οὐκ ἀπό[μουσον τὸ γυναικῶν.
καί φημ⸢ι⸣ [βροτῶν οἵτινές εἰσιν
πάμπαν [ἄπειροι μηδ᾽ ἐφύτευσαν
παῖ]⸢δ⸣ας π⸢ρ⸣[οφέρειν εἰς εὐτυχίαν
[Missing text based on lines given in paper by H.J. Milne.]
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| Extent | 1 fragment |
| Acquisition | Found at Arsinoe in 1888 by Sir Flinders Petrie. Not one of the MS fragments purchased by Professor Priebsch in Bonn. |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| AccessConditions | The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking. |
| PublnNote | See H. J. M. Milne, "A New Fragment of Medea", The Classical Review (49), 1935, p14. |