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  • Bryan July 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM

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    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.

    In further support of this, we do…
  • Cassius July 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM

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    It seems to me that the content of many of our Lucretius Today episodes over the last several years makes them worthy of exposure to a wider audience. I am therefore going to experiment with creating edited transcripts of them for posting as articles on…
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  • Kalosyni July 18, 2025 at 8:17 AM

    Replied to a comment by Pacatus on the image A Life Full of Pleasure.
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    Pacatus My idea was to keep the categories at a fairly high level of abstraction. I am not sure that those specific pleasures you mentioned are necessary for everyone. And thinking further I should probably remove music and traveling from the list if…
  • Don July 18, 2025 at 7:14 AM

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    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.
  • Eikadistes July 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM

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    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…
  • Bryan July 17, 2025 at 8:48 PM

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    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..."

    (Although, of course, τὸ ζῆν is more "living"…
  • Pacatus July 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM

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    I love this. Especially: “how life is a full rainbow of adding pleasure and removing pain.”

    With due reference to the discussion of "katastematic hedonism” here: Preuss - "Epicurean Ethics - Katastematic Hedonism", I wonder what katastematic pleasures…
  • Don July 17, 2025 at 5:24 PM

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    Right. It's attributed to Metrodorus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrodoru…%29?wprov=sfla1
  • Eikadistes July 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM

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    I'd say ... paraphrasing, it could mean, either: [1] we are to live while embracing the grand inevitability of death, or else, [2] we are to live while spitting upon the universal fear of death.
  • DaveT July 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM

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    Comments please.

    I've come across the following post questioning the attribution of VS 47 to Epicurus himself: VS 47" I have anticipated thee, Fortune, and entrenched myself against all thy secret attacks. And we will not give ourselves up as captives to…
  • Bryan July 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM

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    We do have Johannes Stobaeus (fl. f. 450 CE) in his Anthology: volume 3, chapter 17, section 24 quoting Epicurus: "I teem with what is pleasant for this little body – using only water and bread – and I spit on the pleasures from extravagances: not…
  • Cassius July 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM

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    How does this relate to the phrasing of the fragment translated as about spitting on good (or is it beauty?) unless it bring pleasure?
  • Eikadistes July 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM

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    I just wanted to add another brief reflection on the "embracing" versus "spitting" nuance:

    There are a variety of ways in which people seem to interface with death: fearing death, fleeing from death, fighting death, chasing immortality, damning life, …
  • Bryan July 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM

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    If we take the sigma, I think we have προσπτύω. Given the active form of προσπτύσαντες, it is difficult to pair with προσπτύσσομαι.
  • Cassius July 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM

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  • Adrastus July 17, 2025 at 11:18 AM

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    I sometimes like to use some strange phrasings for fun, and to a lesser extent, to demonstrate in some way I didn't use any A.I. to write. :D

    Yes, I see Epicurus' last day as a preparation for death. An acceptance but relishing in the memories of close…
  • Eikadistes July 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM

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  • Eikadistes July 17, 2025 at 10:47 AM

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    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).

    Screenshot 2025-07-17 at 10.33.27 AM.png

    The first…
  • Don July 17, 2025 at 10:37 AM

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    Yes. I believe προσπτυσαντες conveys literally spitting upon.

    Another curiosity of this VS is that it's Metrodorus writing and not Epicurus.
  • Cassius July 17, 2025 at 9:34 AM

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    In the meantime here is the Epicurism.info version with the Greek:

    https://wiki.epicurism.info/Vatican_Saying_47/



  • Kalosyni July 17, 2025 at 8:59 AM

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    VS47. "I have anticipated thee, Fortune, and entrenched myself against all thy secret attacks. And I will not give myself up as captive to thee or to any other circumstance; but when it is time for me to go, spitting contempt on life and on those who…
  • Kalosyni July 17, 2025 at 8:55 AM

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    I have some questions about the wording of VS47 and will ask over in this thread for examining the translation:

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  • Cassius July 17, 2025 at 8:08 AM

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    Good post Adrastas and I agree with it, but it might be worth discussing the two words I underlined there, "despair" and "unassuagedly disturbed." I don't think Joshua or I used those words in the podcast, and this would be worth discussing.

    All these…
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    Brings me so much joy hearing this episode. I feel like the ataraxic mind guards against the perils and pains of life, but I think Epicurus redeems the somewhat listless ataraxic state by arguing that emotions are there to guide us towards a sagely life…
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