I have been spending quite a bit of time in the CGCG, which is why I have not gotten very far with Epictietus. I am very much enjoying the new Cambridge Greek Lexicon, but it does not include Epictetus, so I have found much more help in the LSJ. Here is a sentence that is giving me a bit of trouble: ἄλλῳ δ᾽ ἄλλο προσπίπτει τὸ εὔλογον καὶ ἄλογον, καθάπερ καὶ ἀγαθὸν καὶ κακὸν ἄλλο ἄλλῳ καὶ συμφέρον καὶ ἀσύμφορον. I understand that ἄλλος can be taken with another of its own cases to give a reciprocal sense “each other.” So then do I take them together “one thing to one person, another thing to another person”? Also, I am not sure of the sense of προσπίπτει here. The best I can come up with is LSJ II. 1. of events “befall one.” So my interpretation is (I do not dare speak of translation): “The rational and the irrational strike one person one way, another person another way, just as is the case with good and evil, or that which is profitable and that which is not.” I would be very grateful for your ideas.
Hi Charlie, Yes that’s it. We could say “The reasonable and unreasonable strike different people different ways.”
Thank you. I’m afraid you haven’t heard the last of me. I’m puzzling over not a few other passages.