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A New Supplement to Diogenes of Oenoanda’s Fr. 6 Smith: a Case of Epicurean Language Selection

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Abstract

This paper intends to offer a new supplement to a corrupt passage of the Epicurean inscription of Oenoanda. Smith, in the lacuna of Fr. 6, uses the phrasal term πρῶτα σώματα to indicate the atoms. The supplement is not satisfying as it is based solely on evidence drawn from non-Epicurean texts and Lucretius, who writes in Latin and is not always reliable for reconstructing the Epicurean terminology. In this article, I will try to demonstrate that πρῶτα σώματα is in fact a peripatetic – and subsequently stoic – term indicating the elements in general, which has never been used by any Epicurean author for polemical reasons. Finally, I will propose an alternative supplement.

Acknowledgements

I am very much indebted to Tobias Reinhardt, Jürgen Hammerstaedt, Federico Favi and the anonymous readers of this paper for insightful comments and guidance. Of course, any mistakes are my own.

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