Hecataeus in FGrH

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I’m reading Robin Lane Fox’s Travelling Heroes (American edition) and on page 196 he writes “At Solonus, west of Palermo, he [Heracles] killed the settlement’s namesake, who showed himself hostile to strangers. 38”. Footnote 38 is “Hecat., FGrH I, F77.”

On http://www.dfhg-project.org/DFHG/index.php?volume=Volumen%20primum
when I look at HECATAEI FRAGMENTA 77, I see “Ὀρέσται, Μολοσσικὸν ἔθνος· Ἑκ. Εὐρ.”

I must be doing something wrong, but I can’t figure out what.

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Hi Mark,
I did a little digging-it’s fragment 48. Don’t know how he came up with 77. Here’s a link to Klausen’s edition:
https://archive.org/details/fragmentascylaci00heca/page/52
If you go to fragment 48 in FrHG, it’s there as well. You can click on the “48” and it will take you to an edition of the Fragmenta in Google books:
https://books.google.com/books?id=y5pxAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA3#v=onepage&q&f=false

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Thanks a bunch! That’s the quote.

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You have found the quote, but just to clear up the fragment number: confusingly, FGrH (Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker, ed. Jacoby) is different from FHG (Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum, ed. Mueller). The former is the standard collection cited by scholars (hence its appearance in Lane Fox), and the numbers are retained in the ongoing ‘Brill’s New Jacoby’. But its online versions can be accessed only with an individual or institutional subscription to Brill. Mueller’s 19-century collection is, obviously, less complete and less authoritative, but it is freely available online. That is why the same fragment can appear with two different numbers.