Totally agree with the above. It is hard to capture ancient Greek in English. There are verb moods that we just don't have. This lets the authors play with

Totally agree with the above. It is hard to capture ancient Greek in English. There are verb moods that we just don't have. This lets the authors play with ambiguity in a way that we have trouble doing... a neat concept that you can dial up and down the ambiguity of what you're saying and the listener would understand that as at least partially intentional. And totally, a readable translation is the most important, because in reality, what's readable is probably doing a better job of capturing the writers intent than a super-precise and consistent translation. Also interesting that there seem to be a bunch of veterans on the stoics thread. Not surprising, but interesting nonetheless.