Posted: May 14, 2017 2:40 pm
Cito di Pense wrote:Tracer Tong wrote:But you claimed the text is ungrammatical. Again (third time of asking!), is it fair to say you don't have the ability to demonstrate that is the case?
No, Leucius does not claim it; LC quoted Gregory Hays as claiming the text is ungrammatical. Go complain to Gregory Hays, who is described as having translated Meditations
Sure Leucius claims it, a position in support of which he quoted Hays. Of course, he's free to retract that claim.
Cito di Pense wrote:If you want to exclude from this discussion anyone who cannot translate Koine Greek with a professional understanding of its grammar, go do it in a university somewhere, instead of bullying people on the internet with nothing more than insubstantial hints that you can. There is furthermore no basis for requesting evidence of interpolation when what's going on is translation and interpretation, both of which you know are not exact sciences. If you don't like the practice of suspecting interpolation when one cannot actually photograph a marginal notation that's been incorporated, then you don't like it.
Far from excluding anyone from discussion, I've (several times, in fact) invited Leucius to defend his assertion, not suspicion, the text is ungrammatical; asking someone to support such an assertion is not "bullying"; and the fact that we are dealing in "translation and interpretation" hardly means that requesting evidence has "no basis".
Cito di Pense wrote:We should accept all ancient scribblings as genuine unless we can see the scribbling in the margin.
Not a textual principle I would endorse!