INTRODUCTION
manuscript is of the late eleventh or early twelfth century and these scholia may, so Schenkl thought, be copied from an earlier manuscript. On the words of Epictetus: 'the individual part, which God has torn from himself and given to us', the marginal note says: 'presumably what flows from above'. Schenkl derives this from Arethas himself, linking it with a marginal note in Dio Chrysostom,[1] where Arethas quotes from Marcus: 'all flows from that other world' or, as he cites it, 'from above'.
Where Epictetus writes: 'So watch yourselves in what you do and you will discover of what calling (or "sect") you are', there is a note: 'It is proper to say the same also of us, that few are of the sect of Antoninus.' Again in the chapter on the Cynic's life and profession, where Epictetus says: 'perhaps we do not perceive his greatness, do not worthily imagine Diogenes' character', the note is: 'nor we the character of Antoninus.' So, on the text: 'What is the character of his doctrines? On these we accept or reject him', the annotator has: 'carry this out in regard to monks who appear to be somewhat: if these have the character of those who formerly ruled in this sect, Antoninus and his followers, I mean, let them be Fathers.'[2] The passages show that there was still an interest in the Stoic school and a recognition that Marcus Antoninus professed its tenets.
- ↑ Test, to ii. 3, σύμφωνον τοῦτο τῷ τοῦ αὐτοκράτορος Μάρκου· πάντα ἄνωθεν ῥεῖ σοφῶς εἰρηκότος Sonny, Analecta ad Dio. Chrys. p. 116. The note in Epict. schol. is οἶμαι διὰ τὰ ἄνωθεφ ῤεύσαντα.
- ↑ τοῦτο θεωρείσθω καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν μοναχῶν τῶν δοκούντων εἶναί τι· jαὶ ἐὰν ἔχωσι τοὺς χαρακτῆρας τῶν προβεβασιλευκότων ἐν τούτῳ τῶ τάγματι, Ἀντωνἰου φημὶ καὶ τῶν κατ᾽ αὐτόν, ἔστωσαν ἡμῖν πατέρες· εἰ δὲ νέας χαραγὰς φέρωσιν, τῷ χρυσεψητἢ παραπεμφθήτωσαν· κἀκεῖνος αὐτοὺς δοκιμάσει l.c. lxxxiii (corrected ed. min., 1916, schol. ad iv. 5. 17). If τῷ χρυσεψητἢ refers to Marcus, we have the first use in his connexion of a title which suggests the famous 'Golden Book'.
