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>>9155402

We were not discussing what is objectively true regarding the concept of virtue, but were in fact discussing how the the Greeks, Romans, Platonists, Aristotelians and Stoics understood the concept of virtue. In your own words here >>9155331, "We were speaking of virtue as recognized by ancient Romans and Greeks, you nitwit."

I never claimed that Epictetus's understanding of virtue was objectively true, I was only explaining how he understood it, and how you were wrong in the way you claimed the Romans understood the concept. Therefore what you or I think about the nature of virtue is irrelevant, as is your critique of Epictetus's understanding of virtue, as we are arguing about how the Greeks and Romans understood it.

Really now, there is no need for you to perturb yourself over this.

>>7911462

μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος
οὐλομένην, ἣ μυρί᾽ Ἀχαιοῖς ἄλγε᾽ ἔθηkε,
πολλὰς δ᾽ ἰφθίμους ψυχὰς Ἄϊδι προΐαψεν
ἡρώων, αὐτοὺς δὲ ἑλώρια τεῦχε kύνεσσιν
5οἰωνοῖσί τε πᾶσι, Διὸς δ᾽ ἐτελείετο βουλή,
ἐξ οὗ δὴ τὰ πρῶτα διαστήτην ἐρίσαντε

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