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Eikadistes
Reaction (Post)July 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM […]
Although I think that would require adding τοῦ before καλοῦ, giving μετὰ [τοῦ] καλοῦ πλείονος, but even then we would expect μετὰ πλείονος [τοῦ] καλοῦ -- all of which is more of a change than from πλειονος to παιωνος.
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Bryan
Reaction (Post)July 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM And if you go back to our discussion at the start of this thread: remember that παιωνος "triumph song" doesn't appear in the manuscript. It's πλειονος. -
Bryan
July 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM Replied to the thread VS47 - Source in Vat.gr.1950 and elsewhere.Post[…]
Although I think that would require adding τοῦ before καλοῦ, giving μετὰ [τοῦ] καλοῦ πλείονος, but even then we would expect μετὰ πλείονος [τοῦ] καλοῦ -- all of which is more of a change than from πλειονος to παιωνος.
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Cassius
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July 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM Replied to the thread Episode 190 - Cicero's On Ends - Book One - Part 01.PostFighting Back Against the Anti-Epicureans - Part 01
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Kalosyni
Reaction (Post)July 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM […]
I am not seeing a reference to fears. I am seeing "...but whenever what must happen (τὸ χρεών) leads us out: having greatly spat on life and on those who cling to it in vain, we go out of life..."
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Kalosyni
Reaction (Post)July 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM […]
Yeah, no explicit reference to that word, just the general idea of dismissing death.
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I'm glad you brought this up because I want your take on it. I read ζῆν as an infinitive, so, even though its awkward, I try to squeeze a "to..." into the… -
Kalosyni
Reaction (Post)July 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM And if you go back to our discussion at the start of this thread: remember that παιωνος "triumph song" doesn't appear in the manuscript. It's πλειονος. -
Godfrey
Reaction (Post)July 18, 2025 at 9:41 AM […]
Great question!
I found differing renderings from different authors. Bailey seems to be an outlier in his transposition; note the verb προπτύσαντες (proptúsantes) versus προσπτύσαντες (prosptúsantes).
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Godfrey
Reaction (Post)July 18, 2025 at 9:38 AM […]
Yes. I believe προσπτυσαντες conveys literally spitting upon.
Another curiosity of this VS is that it's Metrodorus writing and not Epicurus.
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