Establishing the text 1: recension
Richard Tarrant
In so many respects objectivity is an illusion, and the margin of discretion at once appealing agonizing for philologist. If critical editor not arrogant rewriter text, he constitutionally a desperate man. Philology lives by hypotheses more than certainties, nothing but hypotheses, or less judicious.(Gorni (2003), 54)
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