Seneca, Lucius Annaeus Epistulae 3

ed. Richard Mott Gummere

Epistulae. Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. ed. Richard Mott Gummere. Cambridge. 1917-1925.

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Current edition Perseus

Epistulae (Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, Vol 1-3. Gummere, Richard Mott, editor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd., 1917-1925.)

Notes on the current edition

Epistulae

1. inscribitur Haase; scribitur MSS.
2. adsero Harmon; adopto Hense; adoro LPb.
3. qui modo Wolters; quomodo MSS.
4. nobiscum queri Haase; nobis conqueri MSS.
5. Hense inserts iactura after vitae.
6. timendum p; anteferendum L; anteferendum timendum Pb; ante (a te Lipsius) verendum Gertz.
7. es Lipsius; est MSS.
8. es Gertz; est MSS.
9. es Gertz; est MSS.
10. es Gertz; est MSS.
11. potentioris inferior MSS.; the others read potentioribus.
12. una Muretus; ultima MSS.
13. aut in utrumque pLPb; Hense rejects aut.
14. se Madvig; sed MSS.
15. Hense adds fastidiam.
16. aut talis, cuius Disselbeck and Buecheler; aut alicuius (aut cuius) MSS.
17. est Muretus; sit MSS.
18. This passage is hopelessly corrupt. The course of the argument requires something like this: For it is just as much to my advantage not to be able to do what I do not want to do, as it is to be able to do whatever gives me pleasure.
19. debebat Fickert and Madvig; debeat MSS.
20. ecquis Madvig; hec quis and et quis MSS.
21. aliquid mali ictus pL; est, found in a few less important MSS., is inserted by Hense.
22. ad deos Rossbach; at (ad) nos MSS.
23. After pudebit Thomas and Hense 2 insert te.
24. luendae Pincianus; levandas or leundas or leuaturas MSS.
25. festinetur Gronovius; festinatur MSS.
26. noverat after bene bracketed by Hense, after Gronovius.
27. nunc non Schweighäuser; nunc pL; non other MSS.
28. inquit p; inquis LPb.
29. So the MSS.; otherwise Hense would read spargendum plena manu est.
30. Lepidi Erasmus (from an unknown MS.); lepidum all known MSS.
31. imperem and imperim MSS.; imputem Rossbach. Buecheler conjectures nescias, aes cui imperem, you did not know the man upon whom I am levying for a loan.