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with a light hand had attempted the emendation of this passage, when, by substituting πινῶν drinking in place of δι’ ὧν through which from Diogenes, he seemed to himself to have restored it: and yet there lies hidden under this passage another sore, of the kind that are called ὔπουλα festering. Now, I hope to prove to everyone that what I said there was said truly by me, and that I have discovered the surgery for that dangerous ulcer. I say, therefore, that that reading δι’ ὧν, which can signify nothing at all here, approaches much closer to the true reading than that which is taken from Diogenes, πινῶν. For I contend that διναῶν whirling should be made from δι’ ὧν. And since I promised that I would bring a great crowd of witnesses, I will take my beginning from a passage which follows the one I amended by a small interval: τῆς δίνης αἰτίας οὔσης τῆς χμύσεως πάντων the swirl being the cause of the coming-together of all things. Also from another which precedes the same by a small interval, where it is said about atoms: φέρεσθαι δι’ ὧ τῷ ὅλῳ δινουμένας to be carried through the whole, being whirled. You have also in the life of Leucippus passages that make for this emendation of mine; and indeed in the life of Epicurus.

I pass to the third and last passage of those about which I promised I would speak in Laertius. It is among the Illustrious in Plato, p. 55, at the end. For there it is read: ὅσπις δέκα εἰδήμαθὼν πινῶ who has learned ten kinds of songs, where Junius translates: who has learned ten kinds of songs. Although Epicharmus thought of nothing less here than of the number ten or any other; and therefore there was no need to invent those kinds of songs, which would be joined with that ten. What, therefore, did Epicharmus mean? Doubtless, he added to the particle δὲ another Doric particle κα, of the kind that are called παρεπληρωματικαὶ expletive or filler particles.