Posted: Sep 18, 2017 10:36 am
Leucius Charinus wrote:Tracer Tong wrote:I'm still interested in what arguments you have for thinking the Meditations reference is probably interpolated.
The arguments are those of the translators who I have earlier cited, and who think the reference to be an interpolation. This does not yet include the arguments of PA Brunt. The situation here is that there have been "challenges" to the evaluation of authenticity with the Meditations reference.
But the only argument I recall was that the text is ungrammatical, which isn't an argument you were able to defend. But since I can tell you it isn't ungrammatical (and Brunt, among others, agrees with me), and other scholars don't contest the reference's authenticity more generally, it's not clear why you're not, as I am, undecided about it, instead of thinking it probably an interpolation.