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Leucius Charinus wrote:

Tracer Tong wrote:

Leucius Charinus wrote:
My position is that I have cited the translators' opinions that the reference is an interpolation ("margin gloss foisted upon text") from their respective translations and footnotes.

You've not merely cited them: you've cited them with approval, including the claim that the text is ungrammatical.

The claim that the text is ungrammatical is the translator's. Gregory Hays' 2003 translation of Meditations

Hays' endnote for 11.3 says:

["This ungrammatical phrase [like the Christians]
is almost certainly a marginal comment by a later reader;
there is no reason to think Marcus
had the Christians in mind here."

I have merely cited the translators' expert opinions.

I've merely pointed out that you've yet to defend this position which you've endorsed, likely because you're unable to do so. Correct me if I'm mistaken.

The experts can defend their own opinions. You are mistaken to think that by stating the opinion of experts I am obliged to have to also defend their opinions. You are free to introduce other expert opinion to the contrary which you have done.