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 '6 8^ 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 188—dc21 99-20798 CIP Die Deutsche Bibliothek - CIP-Einheitsaufnahme 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) ISBN 90 04 II358 4 ISSN 0079-1687 ISBN 90 04 11358 4 © Copyright 1999 by Konmklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Brill provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910 Danvers MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. PRINTED IN THE NETHERLANDS ForJeanette 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