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188.7 Epictetms Epictetus
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THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY FOUNDED BY JAMBS LOEB,
LL.D.
EDITED BY fT. E. PAGE, f E.
CAPPS,
L. A.
POST,
PH.D., LL.D.
M.A.
E. H.
C.H., LITT.D.
fW. H.
D.
WASHINGTON,
EPICTETUS
ROUSE,
LITT.D.
M.A., F.B.HIST.SOC.
EPICTETUS THE DISCOURSES AS REPORTED BY ARRIAN, THE MANUAL, AND FRAGMENTS WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY W. A. OLDFATHER UNIVEESITT OF ILLINOIS
IN
TWO VOLUMES VOL.
II
III AND IV, THE MANUAL, AND FRAGMENTS
DISCOURSES, BOOKS
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON
WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD MCMLH
first printed 1928
Reprinted 1952
Printed in Great Britain
CONTENTS PAGE
DISCOURSES, BOOK
III
1
DISCOURSES, BOOK IV
243
FRAGMENTS
THE ENCHXISIDIQN, OR MANUAL INDEX
439 .
479 539
ARRIAN'S DISCOURSES
OF EPICTETUS
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Chapters of tJie Third Book I.
II.
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Of personal adornment. The fields of study in which the man who expects to make progress will have to go into training ; and that we neglect what is most important. What is the subject-matter with which the good man has to deal and what should be the chief object of our training ? To the man who took sides, in an undignified manner, while in a theatre. ;
IV.
V. VI. VII.
VHI. IX.
To those who leave school because Some scattered sayings.
of illness.
A
conversation with the Imperial Bailiff of the Free Cities, who was an Epicurean. How ought we to exercise ourselves to deal with the impressions of our senses ?
To a for
certain rhetorician
who was going
a law-suit. ought we to bear our
X. How XL Some scattered
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XII. XIII.
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of a forlorn state, and the kind of person a forlorn man is.
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would not be unreasonable for one to declare that each of them was beautiful precisely when it achieved supreme excellence in terms of its own nature ; and, since each has a different each it
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not so ? He agreed, -Does it not follow, then, that precisely what makes a dog beautiful,, makes a horse ugly, and precisely what makes a horse beautiful, makes a dog ugly, if, that is, their natures are different? So it Yes, fashion.
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appears. l pancratiast beautiful does not make a wrestler good, and, more than that, makes a runner quite absurd: and the same man who is beautiful for the pentathlon 2 is for, to
my way of thinking, what makes a
very ugly for wrestling ?-~That is so, said he. What, then, makes a man beautiful other than just that which makes a dog or a horse beautiful in its kind ? Just that, said he. What is it, then, that makes a dog beautiful? The presence of a dog's excellence. What makes a horse beautiful? The presence of a horse's excellence. What, then, makes a man beautiful ? Is it not the presence of a man's excellence? Very well, then, young man, do you too, if you wish to be beautiful, labour to achieve this, the excellence that characterizes a man. And what that
is
?
Observe who they are
when you
praise,
whom
you yourself
praise people dispassionately ; is it the just, or the unjust ? The just ; is it the temperThe temperate ; and is it the ate, or the dissolute ? The self-conself-controlled, or the uncontrolled?
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and hurling the discus and the
javelin.
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