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

ARRIAN'S DISCOURSES OF EPICTETUSs, erot/? dyadovs teal icaicov &v\\oyia}JL)vi dfiaffia icalS'.II/w TOP errl ^otj^eia TTOT /IAeyoz>T09 avTOv STL (Q duffpooTros TT/DO? TCIGTIVyeyovev fcal TOVTO o dvaTpeircov dvaTpeirei TOTOV dv8pti)Trov, eTreiGrfk&ev TJ? T&V 8o/covvfyiko'Xbywv,09 /caretX^TTTO Trore /zo^o9 e^1This is Wolf's interpretation of the rare word w>a\vTuc6s,i.e., as referring to a syllogism. But Ppton Hchweighiiuser,and others take it in the sense of "a person who is capable ofanalyzing syllogisms." The former interpolation tits thepreceding sentence better, the latter the following sentence.As in 3 the assayer of silver and the asaayer of characterare blended, so here apparently the transition from thesyllogism to those who handle it is made somewhat abruptly.232