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Tranquility Without a Stop: Timon, Frag. 68

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

M. F. Burnyeat
Affiliation:
University College London

Extract

Translation at this stage would be premature, but three variants in line 3 deserve notice, (a) Bury (iii.394) writes (b) Natorp (p. 292), followed by Brochard (p. 62 n. 4), suggested (which would yield a meiouric line), (c) Wachsmuth (p. 22) prints a colon instead of a comma after

It is not surprising that line 3 has attracted emendation. As it stands, it lacks a verb and has to modify an understood existential

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Research Article
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1980

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