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Headword:
*)epi/kouros
Adler number: epsilon,2406
Translated headword: Epicurus, Epikouros
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A proper name.
The book, then, contained the doctrines of
Epicurus that those people call "principal,"[1] making known the bad [ideas] of
Epicurus. In these [doctrines], then, the following was said: that even this universe is put in motion by a certain chance, not indeed by the will or decision of god. And these doctrines indeed repeat over and over that atoms strike each other and that, when they are separated, air, earth, and the sea are produced from them, and then minglings and conjunctions are dissolved and disappear completely into atoms.[2] [These doctrines also maintain that] all things are moved at random, that is, as a result of chance, not because of the wisdom of a creator. Then all things are mingled up together by providence, not because of having a pilot or a guide or a shepherd.[3] Then [...],[4] he who came with the escort of the god, did not tolerate him talking nonsense, but silenced the mad rage of his words [...].[5] Then he jumped up, telling
Epicurus and his doctrines to go to hell.[6]
*)epi/kouros: o)/noma ku/rion. ei)=xe de\ a)/ra to\ bibli/on ta\s *)epikou/rou do/cas, a(\s e)kei=noi kuri/as ou(/tw kalou=sin, *)epikou/rou kaka\ gnwri/smata: e)n ai(=s a)/ra kai\ to/de h)=n, o(/ti kai\ to/de to\ pa=n fe/retai tu/xh| tini/, ou) mh\n boulh/sei kai\ kri/sei qeou=. tau/tas dh\ ta\s qruloume/nas a)to/mous plhttome/nas u(p' a)llh/lwn, ei)=ta a)fistame/nas, e)k tou/twn gi/nesqai a)e/ra, gh=n kai\ qa/lattan, ei)=ta dialu/esqai ta\s a)nakra/seis kai\ suno/dous kai\ pantelw=s a)fani/zesqai ei)s a)to/mous. fe/resqai de\ ei)kh= ta\ pa/nta, kai\ w(s e)/tuxen, ou) mh\n e)k th=s tou= poihtou= sofi/as. ei)=ta o(/ti e)k pronoi/as fu/retai pa/nta, ou)/te kubernh/thn ou)/te i)qunth\n ou)/te poime/na e)/xonta. ei)=ta o( pomph=| tou= qeou= h(/kwn ou)k h)ne/sxeto paralhrei=n au)to/n, a)lla\ th\n tw=n lo/gwn paraplh=ga lu/ttan katesi/gasen, ei)=ta a)ne/qoren, *)epikou/rw| kai\ tai=s e)kei/nou do/cais kla/ein le/gwn.
Notes:
See also
epsilon 2404,
epsilon 2405. The present entry, after the initial categorizing gloss, is
Aelian fr. 64a Domingo-Forasté (61 Hercher).
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry for
Epicurus at web address 1.
[1] That is to say,
Epicurus'
Principal Doctrines, a set of moral maxims preserved by
Diogenes Laertius.
[2] See
Epicurus,
Letter to Herodotus, passim; Lucretius 2.63-597. See also
alpha 4373.
[3] This is not
Epicurus' position on the role of providence (
pronoia) in the universe. Rather, he argues against the thesis (defended by the Stoics) that there is a providence (and the teleology it implies) operating in the universe (see
Epicurus,
Letter to Herodotus 73-74; Lucretius 5.156-234). Adler's apparatus lists several simple suggestions for emending the text here, each of them introducing the sense
not by providence.
[4] Lacuna marked by Hercher.
[5] Lacuna marked by Hercher. The sentence is quoted again at
pi 414.
[6] The last sentence is quoted again at
kappa 1701 (
Aelian fr. 64d D-F); see also
pi 414.
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Translated by: Marcelo Boeri on 12 July 2002@13:11:22.
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