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Authors: Epictetus,Robert Dobbin

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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
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The translation assumes the addition of
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Emending the text to read:
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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.’


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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.


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