Volume 1 - Discourses - Books I - II - College of Stoic Philosophers

necessary to emend. 77BOOK I. x.8-13I must read over. 1 Then forthwith I say to myself:" And yet what difference does it really make tome how so-aiid-so reads? The firstthingis thatI get my sleep." Even so, in what are the occupationsof those other men comparable to ours? ifyou observe hat they wr do., you will see. For whatelse do they do but all day long cast up accounts,dispute, consult about a bit of grain, a bit of land,or similar matters of profit? Is it, then, much thesame thing to receive a little petition from someoneccand read : I beseech you to allow me to export asmall quantityof grain," and this one: CC I beseechyou to learn from Chrysippus what is the administrationof the universe, and what place therein therational animal has ;and consider also who you are,and what is the nature of your good and evil " ?Is this like that? And does it demand the likekind of study And ? is it in the same way shamefulto neglect the one and the other? Whatthen ? Is it we philosophers alone who take thingseasily and drowse? No, it is you young men farsooner. For, look you, we old men, when we seeyoung men playing, are eager to join in the play ourselves.And much more, if I saw them wide-awakeand eager to share in our studies, should I be eagerto join, myself, in their serious pursuits.what as in our "recitation," and follow that by a readingand exposition of his own (^iravayv&vai), which was intendedto set everything straight and put on the finishing touches.See Schweighauser's note and especially Ivo Brims, De ScJiolaEpicteti (1897), 8 f. By changing ju.4 to pal, as Capps suggests,a satisfactory sense is secured, i.e., "what pupil must readto me," but the ^irt in the compound verb would thus beleft without any particular meaning, and perhaps it is not