Weidemann rightly objects that the unreal esset in the protasis demands another unreal subjunctive in the apodosis. This is the way the text is ordinarily printed. §27: et si tum non esset vera haec enuntiatio 'capiet Numantiam Scipio', ne illa quidem eversa vera est haec enuntiatio 'cepit Numantiam Scipio'. It seems therefore more plausible that this mistake is a result of hasty composition, as Sedley suggested. 1b, and his letters of the period for the phrase, Leg. But it should be recalled that at this period Cicero is writing in 'leftover time' as he follows political events closely (cf.
mori as a reader's insertion (pp.215-16). Weidemann wants to delete de homine enim. The justification introduced with enim in the transmitted text is thus out of place. Here Cicero is reporting the views of Diodorus Cronus, whose 'tense logic' holds that past and future events are true at all times and thus necessary. The text transmitted at §17 reads: nam 'morietur Scipio' talem vim habet ut, quamquam de futuro dicitur, tamen ut id non possit convertere in falsum de homine enim dicitur, cui necesse est mori. The constitution of the text will be the primary focus of this review. Though the Latin text is presented without a critical apparatus, Weidemann has devoted considerable thought to it. modern editions, and editorial principles. What one misses in comparison with Weidemann's edition of Aristotle, Peri hermeneias, is a detailed account of the manuscript tradition. There are also sections on the related texts of Pseudo-Plutarch and Alexander of Aphrodisias and on the reception of De fato.
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In contrast to early Tusculum volumes that began with the original text plus en face German translation, this one contains a detailed (75-page) introduction, in which the origin of the work, its background in the Hellenistic philosophical schools and its structure are clearly delineated. 1 Here he presents his views systematically in the form of introduction, text, translation and commentary. The author of the volume under review, Hermann Weidemann, has long been associated with De fato, both as the supervisor of Magnus Schallenberg's dissertation and as the author of studies of problems in this and related texts. Any help with this text is therefore welcome, particularly if it is supplied by an expert. €49,95.ĭe fato is agreed to be the most sophisticated and challenging of Cicero's philosophical works. Hermann Weidemann, Marcus Tullius Cicero.
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