Posted: Jul 09, 2017 11:33 pm
RealityRules wrote:Tracer Tong wrote: But looking at the text, I'm not seeing how it's not grammatical. In that case, I look forward to your explanation.
Several people say this the passage is not grammatical and likely to be an interpolation -RealityRules wrote:Leucius Charinus wrote:
Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity
edited by Anders Klostergaard Petersen, George H. van Kooten (BRILL, March 2017 )
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=zY ... 9D&f=false
PA Brunt's arguments that the Christian reference in Marcus Aurelius is an interpolation are summarised above.
Not just Brunt's arguments. Footnotes 37 to 41 inclusive also refer to doubt about "the text of 11.3" -
Eichstaedt, 37; Rutherford, 38; Haines, 39; Dalfen, 40; and, from footnote 41, Hard and Staniforth.
Add Gregory Hays' (2003): eight scholars/authors cited.
plus Anders Klostergaard Petersen and George H. van Kooten: 10.
But not all of those ten scholars suggest the text is interpolated, nevermind ungrammatical. You've been reminded of this already. Heck, Petersen and Kooten are the editors of the volume that Leucius cited earlier, that, as far as I know, have nothing to say on the matter we're discussing. You really mustn't just make stuff up, RealityRules.