ὦ φίλοι,
This passage was really difficult because of all the infinitives, which if I use the stanard formula (e.g. παυειν=to stop) don’t make sense. I investigated some “articular infinitives,” which allow more freedom in tranlation but I’m not sure these are true articular infinitives, since I don’t always see the article (though here: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0007%3Apart%3D4%3Achapter%3D45%3Asection%3D114 it says sometimes a clause can serve as an article).
I’m not finished with the translation–but I did want to post in case there are any egregious errors, and also to inquire about the very first words: σανται̣…κ̣α̣. I’ve found no explanation for them in the resources I’ve consulted. I’ve also bolded the translation for (ἑ]τέρως γοῦν λέγειν· „Ὠκεανοῦ πέτ̣[αλ]α̣ κράνα[ς“)–this is presumably in contrast to Acheloios’ melodious reeds. A few of the lines have been translated in D’Alessio’s 2004 article.
Scholia in Iliadem 21.195.1-197.2 (ed. Erbse+ D’Alessio)= P.Oxy 221, Column VIII-IX
σανται̣…κ̣α̣[..].νας [ ἐ]γκατέλεξα
Ἀχελω[ΐου] ἀργυροδ[ί]νεω, / ἐξ οὗ πᾶσα
θάλασ[σα“. κ]αὶ Μεγακλείδης δ’ [ἐ]ν̣ αʹ Πε-
ρὶ Ὁμή[ρο]υ γράφει· „ποῖον ῥεῖθρο[ν] μεῖζον
Ἀχελώ̣[ι]ο̣υ, ‘ἐξ οὗπερ πάντες ποτ[α]μοί’;“ . ὁ
μέντ[οι γ’] Ἀρίσταρχος Ὁμηρικὸν αὐτ[ὸ]ν
ἀποφ[αίν]ει· τὰ γὰρ ῥεύματα ἐξ Ὠκεαν[ο]ῦ
εἶναι. [Σέλ]ευκος δ’ †ἐν εʹ [Ἡρ]ακλείας· „πῶ̣[ς
δ’ ἐπορ[εύθ]η̣ς ῥεῦμα Ἀ[χ]ε̣λ̣[ω]ΐου ἀργυ[ρο-]
δίνα, / Ὠκεανοῦ ποταμοῖ̣ο̣ [δι’] εὐρέος ὑγ[ρ]ὰ
κέλευθ̣α;“. τοῦτο δὲ ἐμφαίν̣ε̣[ι]ν καὶ Πίν-
δαρον, λέγοντα τὸν αὐλητικὸν κ[ά]λα-
μον Ἀχελώιο[υ] ὕ̣[λη]ν, ἀντὶ̣ [το]ῦ̣ ὕδατ̣ο̣[ς·]
„πρόσθα μὲν ἲ̣ς Ἀχελωΐου [τ]ὸν ἀοιδ[ότα-]
τον / Εὐρωπία κρά̣να Μέλ[α]ν̣[ό]ς τε π[οτ]α-
μοῦ ῥοαὶ τρέφον κάλαμο[ν“ (ἑ]τέρως
γοῦν λέγειν· „Ὠκεανοῦ πέτ̣[αλ]α̣ κράνα[ς“),
πολλούς τε πρὸ Δήμητρο[ς] θύειν Ἀ-
χελώιωι, ὅτι πάντων πο[τα]μῶν ὄνο-
μα ὁ Ἀχελῶιος κα[ὶ] ἐξ ὕδα[τος] ὁ καρπός.
Ἔφορος δ’ ἐν βʹ [φησὶ] τὸ [ἐ]ν Δωδώνη<ι> μ[αν-]
τ<ε>ῖον σχεδὸν ἐν ἅπα̣σ̣ι̣ τοῖς χρησμοῖς
προστάττειν Ἀχελ[ώι]ω<ι> θύειν, ὅθε̣[ν]
τοὺς Ἕλληνας πᾶ[ν] ὕ̣δ̣ω̣[ρ] πό̣τιμ̣ον
νομίζειν Ἀχελῶι[ο]ν καὶ φρείατα [μ]α-
κρὰ νάουσιν<:> ὅτι ἀντὶ τοῦ νάει, ῥεῖ.
Molinari (+ D’Alessio):
“…he placed in it the sinews
of silver-eddying Acheloios, from whom the whole
sea[emerges].” And Megakleides, in On
Homer, writes: “which stream is greater than
Acheloios, from whom all rivers [flow]?”
On the contrary, Aristarchos exhibits
Homer himself: for [there] the streams are out of Okeanos.
Seleukos, in the fifth book of the Herakleia, [writes] “how
did you traverse the stream of silver-eddying Acheloios,
through the river Okeanos’ wet
paths?” And showing this also [is] Pindar,
saying the reed suitable for aulos playing
is a plant of Acheloios, [who is] equivalent to the waters;
“Formerly, the power of Acheloös,
Europa’s spring, and the streams of the Melas
nourished the most melodious reed,” the other
at any rate saying “leaves of Okeanos’ fountain.”
And in front of Demeter many [were] to sacrifice
to Acheloios, because Acheloios is the name for
all of the rivers, and out of the waters [comes] the harvest.
Ephoros, in book B, says that in Dodona the nearby oracle in all prophecies
commanded to sacrifice to Acheloios, whence
for the Greeks all river water
is named Acheloios and also [all] “springs and
deep wells”: because at the same time the river wells up, it flows.
Themata: Cosmology; Demeter, Dodona; Identified with Water; Okeanos; Status