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ARRIAN'S DISCOURSES OF EPICTETUS
ever, have been of any notable value, except, perhaps, the celebrated translations by Politian and Leopardi, and Schweighäuser's separate edition of 1798,[1] which is still the last independent critical text,[2] and has been reprinted by most subsequent editors, even Schenkl, although the latter has added much useful critical material in his notes, especially those which indicate the probable sources of such passages as seem to be derived from the four books of the Discourses, and in particular has arranged the apparatus criticus in more convenient terms.
The sigla which Schenkl has devised for Schweighäuser's apparatus, and which may occasionally be employed below, are the following:
| A | MSS. in which portions of the Encheiridion precede the corresponding commentary of Simplicius. |
| V | The ed. of 1528. |
- ↑ For some unknown reason Schweighäuser in his Epicteteae Philosophiae Monumenta, III. 1799, reproduced Upton's much less satisfactory text.
- ↑ One reason for this delay is the extremely large number of MSS. involved, not merely of the work itself, but of the two Christian paraphrases and of the huge commentary by Simplicius, which is more than ten times the bulk of the original. The texts of these must first be critically determined before their value for the Encheiridion can be estimated, so that in reality four works instead of one have to be edited from the very foundations. Another is the very slight probability that any really notable contributions to knowledge might result therefrom. As an intellectual problem the preparation of a new edition of the Encheiridion presents certain interesting features, but as a practical undertaking it is outranked by a good many other possible investigations.
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