P.Oxy. VI 866, which comprises some small parts of the first seven lines of a column, was first published in 1908 by Grenfell and Hunt as an unidentified “prose fragment”, possibly from a historical work. The fragment was dated by its editors to the first century AD on palaeographical grounds. Several decades later, in 1968, Turner edited a 62-line fragment of Menander’s Karchedonios (P.Oxy. XXXIII 2654), a fragment apparently written by more than one hand, one of which, as the editor noticed, is “very like” the hand of P.Oxy. VI 866. The latter fragment also happens fortunately to contain the word Κ]αρχηδονιο (l. 5). Turner subsequently suggested that these two fragments might come from the same work and indeed from the same roll. Although Turner, who reedited P.Oxy. VI 866, implied that the fragment does not have to be metrical, and that “certainty in regard to identity is unattainable”, the possibility of its being attributed to Menander has exercised a strong appeal. The fragment was included in CGF (as Menander fr. 158), in Arnott’s Loeb edition of Menander’s Karchedonios (as “tentatively assigned” to this play), and in the recent Budé edition of the same play by Blanchard, where it is integrated into his reconstructed version of the Karchedonios as directly following from P.Oxy.

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氧 VI 866：喜剧片段还是历史散文？

氧 VI 866 包含一栏前七行的一些小部分，于 1908 年由 Grenfell 和 Hunt 首次出版，作为一个身份不明的“散文片段”，可能来自历史著作。该片段由其编辑根据古文年代确定为公元一世纪。几十年后的 1968 年，特纳编辑了 Menander 的 Karchedonios (P.Oxy. XXXIII 2654) 的 62 行片段，该片段显然是由不止一只手写的，正如编辑所注意到的，其中一个片段“非常像” P.Oxy 之手。VI 866. 幸运的是，后一个片段也包含单词 Κ] αρχηδονιο (l. 5)。特纳随后暗示这两个片段可能来自同一部作品，甚至来自同一卷。尽管特纳重新编辑了 P. Oxy。VI 866，暗示片段不必是格律的，而“身份的确定性是无法实现的”，将其归因于米南德的可能性具有强烈的吸引力。该片段被收录在 CGF（作为 Menander fr. 158）、Arnott's Loeb 版本的 Menander's Karchedonios（作为“暂时分配”给这部剧）以及最近由 Blanchard 创作的同一剧的 Budé 版本中，在那里它被整合到他根据 P.Oxy 直接重建的 Karchedonios 版本。