Discourses and Selected Writings (46 page)

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Reading
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The text of this sentence is corrupt, the translation partly conjectural.

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The text here is doubtful.

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Comparing I 20, 16, the last sentence has been translated as a (rhetorical) question; and ‘knowable’ has been added
exempli gratia
to supply the evident loss of an adjective from the text, which would otherwise read ‘… whether [nature] exists or not’.

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The words in italics have been supplied
exempli gratia
to mend an evident lacuna in the text.

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Reading
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Adopting the emendation
for
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