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A Textual Emendation in a Fragment of Musonius Rufus: A Note on Contraception

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Keith Hopkins
Keith Hopkins
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London School of Economics
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IN the fourth book of Stobaeus’ Anthologium, in a section entitled, ‘The Virtue of Having Children’, there is preserved a passage from the writings of the first-century Roman knight and Stoic, Musonius Rufus. This passage is headed: ‘Whether all children born should be raised’,

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , May 1965 , pp. 72 - 74
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1965

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page 72 note 1 The manuscript reading is given by Wachsmuth and Hense: sed alterum a rescripsit The editors’ reading was also accepted by J. Enoch Powell (‘Musonius Rufus’: … Archiv, für Papyrusfarschung xii [1937], 175)Google Scholar when he completed the fragmentary P. Harr 1; nor was this commented upon by A. Körte, ‘Literarische Texte’ …, ibid xiii (1939), 112.

page 72 note 2 Dioscorides, , De re medica 1. 77.Google Scholar 2; 3. 130; 3. 134. 2; Soranus, , Gynaecia 1. 60.Google Scholar

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page 74 note 1 D. 25. 4. 1 partus enim antequam edatur, mulieris est vel viscerum; D 35. 2. 9. 1 partus nondum editus homo non recte fuisse dicitur. Cf. D. 38. 8. 1. 8; 37. 97; 28. 6. 10. 1.

page 74 note 2 Ad. Nat. 1. 15. 3Google Scholar; cf. Apol. 9. 6Google Scholar; and Musonius Rufus, frag., 15b and Stobaeus (Meineke), iii. 129.Google Scholar

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page 74 note 5 On the authenticity and authorship of the fragments of Musonius Rufus, cf. K. von Fritz, s.v. Musonius in R.-E.

page 74 note 6 I should like to thank Dr. G. Giangrande of King’s College, Cambridge, and Professor A. Wasserstein of Leicester for their help and encouragement.