Against Reading, Words, Exegesis

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"Come and listen to me read my commentaries...I will explain Chrysippus to you like no one else can, and I'll provide a complete analysis of his entire text...If necessary, I can even add the views of Antipater and Archedemos"...So it's for this, is it, that young men are to leave their fatherlands and their own parents: to come and listen to you explain words? Trifling little words? Epictetus