Archimedes' Cattle Problem: Greek Text Bull The Cattle Problem
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The Greek text of Archimedes’ Cattle Problem below is taken from the following 3-volume work edited by Danish scholar Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1854-1928):
ARCHIMEDIS OPERA OMNIA CUM COMMENTARIIS EUTOCII
B. G. Teubner, Leibzig, Volume 2 (1881), Pages 448 & 450
You can view it in one of the following two formats:

TEXT . . . typed using a Unicode font with Greek polytonic characters.

GRAPHIC . . . scanned from Heiberg’s book. (481 x 1129 pixels, 156 kilobytes)