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ARRIAN'S DISCOURSES OF EPICTETUS
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- ↑ Oldfather : Kal irapa r6iroy ravra u<pe€7 Kal Trapa Kaip6v Koi /uerd dvaias S and all editors, except Upton, who saw that the passage was corrupt, but not how to heal it. ravra is ambiguous and misses the obvious point. Besides, within eight lines, to have exactly the same phrases, Trapa r6irov and irapa Kaip6v, in a diametrically opposite sense, where the text is certainly sound, seems to me intolerable. The plain sense of the entire context appears to require these changes, the first of which is the slightest imaginable, and the second, not absolutely necessary perhaps, in the abrupt and dramatic style of Epictetus, but probably what would have been written, had he been writing instead of speaking.
