MED. 9.13Discipline of assent
George Long · 1862EN · Long

To-day I have got out of all trouble, or rather I have cast out all trouble, for it was DOGMAnot outside, but within and in my TERMopinions.

Original · ancient Greek

Σήμερον ἐξῆλθον πάσης περιστάσεως, μᾶλλον δὲ ἐξέβαλον πᾶσαν περίστασιν· ἔξω γὰρ οὐκ ἦν, ἀλλὰ ἔνδον ἐν ταῖς ὑπολήψεσιν.

Leopold · Teubner 1908
Commentary

Trouble is not outside. A fine self-correction: "today I got out (ἐξῆλθον) of all trouble (περίστασις) — or rather, I threw it out (ἐξέβαλον)." The first verb would imply that trouble is an external place one leaves; the second corrects it: DOGMAit was not outside (ἔξω) but within — "in my TERMjudgements (ὑπολήψεις)." And so deliverance is not flight from circumstances but the removal of a false judgement about them.

"All is judgement." The passage is a terse formula of Stoic therapy (cf. Epictetus, Ench. 5: "people are disturbed not by things but by their δόγματα about things"; 8.47; 9.15 — things "outside the doors" are mute, the ruling part judges). περίστασις carries a military ring ("encirclement, siege"): the siege is lifted not by the withdrawal of the army but because nothing is left in the fortress to besiege. The governing discipline is assent.

DisciplineDiscipline of assent
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Discipline of assent

Original · ancient Greek

Σήμερον ἐξῆλθον πάσης περιστάσεως, μᾶλλον δὲ ἐξέβαλον πᾶσαν περίστασιν· ἔξω γὰρ οὐκ ἦν, ἀλλὰ ἔνδον ἐν ταῖς ὑπολήψεσιν.

Leopold · Teubner 1908
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Commentary

Trouble is not outside. A fine self-correction: "today I got out (ἐξῆλθον) of all trouble (περίστασις) — or rather, I threw it out (ἐξέβαλον)." The first verb would imply that trouble is an external place one leaves; the second corrects it: DOGMAit was not outside (ἔξω) but within — "in my TERMjudgements (ὑπολήψεις)." And so deliverance is not flight from circumstances but the removal of a false judgement about them.

"All is judgement." The passage is a terse formula of Stoic therapy (cf. Epictetus, Ench. 5: "people are disturbed not by things but by their δόγματα about things"; 8.47; 9.15 — things "outside the doors" are mute, the ruling part judges). περίστασις carries a military ring ("encirclement, siege"): the siege is lifted not by the withdrawal of the army but because nothing is left in the fortress to besiege. The governing discipline is assent.

DisciplineDiscipline of assent
Record added2026-07-16
Statuspublished