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The following post is one of a series so that we can get our collection of the main list of Principal Doctrines under the "Texts" section in better shape. Although this thread will include a "poll" in the next post, what we are really looking for is the "best" combination of faithfulness to the original combined with clarity in modern English. I will get with a collection of the Level 3 participants here to work on editing the final list, but the full discussion should be open to everyone to con…

Which Translation of PD06 Should be Featured At EpicureanFriends.com?

Don your breakdown by word reminds me of the "nodictionaries.com" format for Latin. I don't suppose you know of an equivalent for Greek?

(Quote from Don) I seem to remember that we have been down this road before and Elli had some commentary but we will have to look back.....

Yep that's the one, and we're still batting it back and forth! Thanks Don! It's always interesting and a little scary to read what was written three years ago by the same people who may have very different thoughts now!

As a general comment - that kind of editorial thinking can easily lead to problems. Is he really so sure what was in Epicurus' mind when the text says something else? Sounds like this is one of those situations where Dewitt prefers "less emended texts." Add that this editorial thinking comes from Bailey and I am even more suspicious of it.

(Quote from Nate) And so Nate in this situation the text really is there, and is just read OUT by most, but does exist in the manuscript?

I have never had much fix on Usener because I have never been able to read any commentary by him that may exist, but I know I don't have a good feel about Bailey's discretion. But in this case we can't pin this on Bailey, correct? I wish we had more access to Usener's general thoughts on Epicurus to see if (or how) he made similar "this can't be right" comments. Thank you again Don for all you do.

Don if you get a chance to supplement your post here that would also be helpful: RE: Best Translation of PDO6 to Feature at EpicureanFriends.com

That link to Aristotle's politics doesn't seem to work but might be useful for comparison. At the moment it would seem to me that something generic ("kingly office") is likely to fit best in the overall context of the discussion, if we presume that 6 and 7 are both seeming to say that safety and security are so valuable that anything that does in fact **in a particular set of circumstances** produce safety and security, at least for a time, has a sanction of nature. Seems to me that Bailey's sen…