Read Discourses and Selected Writings Online
Authors: Epictetus,Robert Dobbin
Tags: #Philosophy / History & Surveys
∗
The addition of ‘decency and a sense of shame’ to the text has been adopted on the basis of many parallel passages in the
Discourses.
∗
The translation in § 18 assumes the change of
to
.
∗
Reading
for
.
∗
The remainder of §14 is probably an intrusion and has been omitted from the translation; it does not suit the context, and does not even make sense on its own: ‘Where truth is also. Where truth and nature are, there is caution. Where truth is, there is confidence, where nature is.’
†
Reading
for
.
∗
reading
for
.
∗
The following sentence has been omitted as an intrusive gloss: ‘He made his interlocutor switch his position.’
∗
There is a lacuna in the text at this point; a sentence fragment (§25) has been omitted from the translation.
∗
Reading
for
.
∗
.