The Encheiridion of Epictetus and Its Three Christian Adaptations: Transmission and Critical Editions (Philosophia Antiqua)

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by  Epictetus

THE ENCHEIRIDION OF
EPICTETUS AND ITS THREE
CHRISTIAN ADAPTATIONS
PHILOSOPHIA ANTIQUA
A SERIES OF STUDIES
ON ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
FOUNDED BYJ.H. WASZINKf AND W.J. VERDENIUSf
EDITED BY
J. MANSFELD, D.T. RUNIA
J.C.M. VAN WINDEN
VOLUME LXXXII
GERARD BOTER
THE ENCHEIRIDION OF
EPICTETUS AND ITS THREE
CHRISTIAN ADAPTATIONS
THE ENCHEIRIDION OF
EPICTETUS AND ITS THREE
CHRISTIAN ADAPTATIONS
TRANSMISSION AND CRITICAL EDITIONS
BY
GERARD BOTER
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BRILL
LEIDEN · BOSTON · KÖLN
1999
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Epictctus.
[Manual. English & Greek]
The Enchciridion of Epictctus and its three Christian adaptations
/ transmission and critical editions by Gerard Botcr.
p. cm. (Philosophia antiqua, ISSN 0079-1687 ; v. 82)
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN 9004113584 (alk. paper)
1. Ethics—Early works to 1800. 2. Conduct of life—Early works to
1800. I. Botcr, Gerard. II. Title. III. Series.
B561.M52E5 1999
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Boter, Gerard:
The Enchciridion of Epictctus and its three Christian adaptations :
transmission and critical editions / by Gerard Botcr. - Leiden ; Boston
; Köln : Brill, 1999
(Philosophia antiqua ; Vol. 82)
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements xi
Preface xiii
THE TRANSMISSION OF THE TEXTS
PART ONE
THE AUTHENTIC ENCHEIRIDION
I. Catalogue of'manuscripts of Epictetus' Encheirìdion 3
II. The affiliation of the manuscripts and the editio
prìncejjs of'Epictetus' Encheiridion 19
The First family 19
The lemmata in Sîô 22
Tt 23
The selection MSS (δ) 25
The AC-group 31
The second family 51
U 55
III. The editions after the editio princefjs and the manu-
scripts related to the editions 58
From Haloander to Wolf 58
The editions after Schegk and Wolf up to Schweig-
häuser 71
Schweighäuser's editio maior 82
Critical work on the Encheiúdion after Schweig-
häuser's edition 84
IV. Simplicius' commentary on Epictetus' Encheirìdion 87
Catalogue of manuscripts 87
The text of the lemmata in Simplicius'
commentary 93
The text of Simplicius' commentary 111
V. The indirect tradition 114
VI. The constitution of the text of Epictetus' Encheiridion 118
PART TWO
[NILUS]' ADAPTATION
VII. Introduction 149
VIII. Catalogue of manuscripts of [Nilus]'adaptation 151
IX. The authenticity and character of [Nilus]'adaptation 156
Authenticity 156
The Christian character of [Nilus]' adaptation 157
Other deviations from the authentic Encheiridion 160
X. The affiliation of the manuscripts and the editio
princef)s of [Nilus]' adaptation 165
The relationship of M and Ρ 165
G 170
The stemmatical position of the MSS other
than MP 172
XI. The constitution of the text of [Nilus]' adaptation 184
PART THREE
THE PARAPHRASIS CHRISTIANA
XII. Introduction 197
XIII. Catalogue of manuscripts of the Paraphrasis
Christiana 199
XIV. The character of the Paraphrasis Christiana 206
XV. The affiliation of the manuscripts and the editio
princeps of the Paraphrasis Christiana 213
The relationship of M and α 213
The apographa of M 215
The relationship of the other manuscripts 216
XVI. The commentary on the Paraphrasis Christiana 237
XVII. The constitution of the text of the Paraphrasis
Christiana 239
PART FOUR
THE ADAPTATION OF VATICANUS GR. 2231
XVIII. The adaptation of Vaticanusgr. 2231 257
Description of Vaticanus gr. 2231 257
CONTENTS IX
The character of the adaptation of Vaticanus
gr. 2231 259
The constitution of the text of the adaptation of
Vaticanus gr. 2231 262
THE TEXTS
PART ONE
EPICTETUS' ENCHEIRJDION
The organization of the apparatus criticus 267
Conspectus siglorum 270
Text and translation 276
Lectiones variantes minores 342
Lectiones variantes ad rem orthographicam pertinentes 346
PART TWO
[NILUS]' ADAPTATION
Conspectus siglorum 351
Text 353
PART THREE
THE PARAPHRASIS CHRISTIANA
Conspectus siglorum 369
Text 371
Lectiones variantes minores 389
Lectiones variantes ad rem orthographicam pertinentes 392
PART FOUR
THE ADAPTATION OF VATICANUS GR. 2231
Conspectus siglorum 395
Text 396