# The Discourses of Epictetus; with the Encheiridion and Fragments/Index

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* Academics, the, 17
* ———, the folly of the, 171, 172
* ———, the, cannot blind their own senses though they have tried, 176
* Achilles, 40
* Act, every, consider what it is, 381
* Acts which bear testimony to a man's words, 94
* ———, indolence and indifference as to, Epictetus blames, 130
* Actor in a play, man an, 386
* Admetus, father of, 242
* Administrator of all things, the proof that there is an, 144
* Adonis, gardens of, 356
* Adultery, 107
* Affect, an, how it is produced, 202
* Affection, natural, 37
* Affectionate, how to become, 277
* Agamemnon and Achilles, quarrel of, 191
* Ἀγγαρεία, a press, 305
* Agrippinus, Paconius, 7, 9, 417
* Alcibiades, 200
* Alexander and Menelaus, 179
* ——— and Hephaestion, 178
* Aliptic art, the, 136
* Anaxagoras, 114
* Ἀνέχου καὶ Ἀπέχου, 439
* Animals, what they are made for, 50
* Annonae, Praefectus, 35
* Antipater, 136
* Antisthenes, Xenophon, and Plato, 157, 158
* ———, noble saying of, 342
* ——— made Diogenes free, 278
* Anxiety, on, 136
* Anytus and Melitus, 88
* Ἀφορμαί, 22
* Ἀποτειχίζειν, 307
* Appearances, φαντασίαι, right use of, 4, 20, 45, 64
* ———, and the aids to be provided against them, 80
* ———, we act according to, 86
* ———, the nature of Good and also of Evil is in the use of, 97
* ———, the faculty of understanding the use of, 118
* ——— drive away reason, 161
* ——— lead on; and must be resisted, 161
* ———, right use of, free from restraint, 167
* ——— often disturb and perplex, 176
* ———, how we must exercise ourselves against, 218
* ——— should be examined, 380
* Aqueduct, Marcian, at Rome, 150
* Archedemus, 108
* Archelaus and Socrates, 436
* Archimedes, 421
* Arguments, sophistical, 23, 25
* Argument, he who is strong in, 193
* Aristides, 415
* ——— and Evenus, 358
* Aristophanes and Socrates, 369, 430
* Arnobius, 440
* Arrian, 1
* Arrogance, self-conceit, οἴησις, 28
* ——— and distrust, 233
* ———, boasting, and pride, advice ​against, 286, 381, 387, 394, 395, 399
* Assent, cause of, 83
* ——— to that which appears false cannot be compelled, 253
* Asses, shod, 306
* Attention, on, 372
* Aversion, ἔκκλισις, 54
* Babbler, a, 376, 377
* Bath, the, 68
* Beauty, 195, 196
* ———, where it is, 370
* Beggars, remarks on, 290
* Belief cannot be compelled, 304
* Best men, the, 434
* Body, the, could not be made free from hindrance, 309
* ——— and spirit must be separated, 99
* ———, the, an instrument used by another power, 424
* Books, what used for, 327
* ———, a few better than many, 79
* Brotherhood of men, 46
* Butler, Bp., 3, 134, 198, 326, 338, 348, 350
* Caesar's friend is not happy, 300
* Cages, birds kept in, by the Romans, 297
* Carystus and Taenarum, marbles of, 422
* Cassiope or Cassope, 213
* Catechism of the Church of England, 410
* Caution about familiar intercourse with men, 236
* Character, on assuming a, above your strength, 398
* Characters, different, cannot be mingled, 323
* Christianity, Mrs. Carter's opinion of the power of, 234
* Christians, promise of future happiness to, on certain conditions, 311
* Chrysippus, 14, 17, 36, 43, 53, 54, 113, 402
* ———, the Pseudomenos of, 157
* ——— on Possibilities, 163
* Chrysippus on the resolution of syllogisms, 188
* ——— and Antipater, 203
* ——— and Zeno, 358
* Circumspection, on, 234
* Circumstances, difficult, a lesson for, 96
* ——— show what men are, 70
* Cleanliness, 368
* Cleanthes, 31, 163, 404
* ———, an example of the pursuit of knowledge under difficulties 292
* Codicillus, a, 217
* Colophon, the, 143
* Common sense, 212
* Company, behaviour in, 394, 396, 400
* Conceit of thinking that we know something, 158
* Confess, some things which a man will not, 173
* Confession, general, of sins in the Prayer Book of the Church of England, 363
* Conflagration, the great, 229
* Conjunctive or complex axiom, 124
* Conscience, τὸ συνειδός, power of, 262
* Consciousness that he knows nothing, a man who knows nothing ought to have the, 174
* Contest unequal between a charming young girl and a beginner in philosophy, 227
* Contradictions, effect of demonstrating, 193
* Convince himself, a power given to man to, 340
* Courage and caution, 97, 98
* ——— and caution, when they are applicable, 101
* Cowardice leads men to frequent divination, 117
* Crates, a Cynic, and his wife, 260
* Criton, Plato's Dialogue, named, 319
* Cynic, the true; his office corresponds to the modern teacher of religion, 250 ​
* Cynic, a, does not wish to hide anything, 250
* ———, the true, a messenger from Zeus, 250
* ———, the father of all men and women, 261
* Cynic's ruling faculty must be pure, 262
* ——— power of endurance, 263
* Cynic, the, sent by God as an example, 355
* Cynism, a man must not attempt it without God, 248
* ———, on, 248
* Daemon, every man's, 48
* Darkness, men seek, to conceal their acts, 249
* Death, 81
* ———, fear of, 54
* ——— or pain, and the fear of pain or death, 98
* ———, what a man should be doing when death surprises him, 209
* ———, what it is, 230, 282
* ———, exhortation to receive it thankfully, 310
* ——— and birth, how viewed by a savage tribe, 335
* ———, the resolution of the matter of the body into the things of which it was composed, 347
* ———, a man must be found doing something when it comes; and what it should be, 361
* ———, when it comes, what Epictetus wishes to be able to say to God, 362
* ——— is the harbour for all, 364
* ——— should be daily before a man's eyes, 387
* Demetrius, a Cynic, 75
* Demonstration, what it is; and contradiction, 183, 190
* De Morgan's Formal Logic, 28
* Design, 19
* Desire of things impossible is foolish, 272
* Desires, consequences of, 358
* Desire and aversion, what they are, 380
* Determinations, right, only should be maintained, 145
* Deviation, every, comes from something which is in man's nature, 371
* Dialectic, to be learned last, 291
* Difficulties, our, are about external things, 360
* Diodorus Cronus, 162
* Diogenes, 71, 139, 203, 226, 369, 418
* ———, when he was asked for letters of recommendation, 106
* ——— and Philip, 250
* ——— in a fever, 256
* ———, a friend of Antisthenes, 257
* ——— and the Cynics of Epictetus' time, 260
* ———, his personal appearance, 261
* ———, how he loved mankind, 278
* Diogenes' opinion on freedom, 298
* Diogenes and Antisthenes, 312
* ———, free, 317, 318
* ——— and Heraclitus, 385
* Dion of Prusa, 266
* Dirty persons, not capable of being improved, 370
* Disputation or discussion, 133
* Divination, 116, 393
* Diviner, internal, 116
* Doctors, travelling, 280
* Domitian banishes philosophers from Rome, 71
* Door, the open, 72, 99
* Duty, what is a man's, 112 410
* ——— to God and to our neighbour,
* Duties of life discovered from names, 127
* ——— of marriage, begetting children and other, 216
* ——— are measured by relations (σχέσεσι), 392
* Education, Epictetus knew what it
* ——— ought to be, 53, 58
* ———, what it is, 67
* ———, what ought to be the purpose of, 245 ​
* Ἡγεμονικόν, τὶ, the governing faculty, 49, 332
* ———, the ruling faculty, described, 351
* Encheiridion, 1
* End, man's true, 20
* End, every thing that we do ought
* ———, to be referred to an, 264
* Enthymema, 28
* Envy, the notion of; Socrates and Bp. Butler, 134
* Epaminondas, 415
* Epaphroditus, 6, 62, 78
* Epictetus, 1, 2, 220
* ——— and the style of the Gospels, 13
* ———, mistake of, 31
* ———, misunderstood, 56, 311
* ——— and the New Testament writers, resemblances between, 93
* ———, extravagant assertion of, 114 perhaps confounds Jews and Christians, 126
* ———, how he could know what God is, 141
* ———, what was the effect of his teaching, 149
* ——— disclaims knowledge of certain things, 82, 163
* ———, his purpose in teaching, 166
* ———, great good sense of, in education, 245
* ———, some unwise remarks of, 289, 293
* ——— affirms that a man cannot be compelled to assent to that which seems to him to be false, 303
* ——— advises not to do as your friend does simply because he is your friend, 322
* ———, what reflections he recommends, 344
* ———, misunderstood by Mrs. Carter, 365
* Epictetus' advice as to giving pain to an enemy, 430
* Epictetus, wise sayings of, 436
* Epicurus, 69, 417
* ———, doctrines of, 65, 66
* ———, the opinions of, 125
* Epicurus, his opinions disproved, 168, 169
* ———, his opinion of honesty, 179
* ——— on the end of our being, and other works of, 185
* Epicurus' opinion of injustice, 214
* Epicureans and Academics, 167
* Epicureans and catamites, 274
* Epicurean, an, 213
* Epirus, governor of, 207
* Eriphyle and Amphiaraus, 181
* Error, the property of, 192
* Errors of others, we should not be angry with the, 56
* Eteocles and Polynices, 177, 337
* Eucharist in the Church of England service, 120
* Euphrates, the philosopher, 235
* ——— did not act well for the sake of the spectators, 353
* Euripides, 113, 178, 404
* Euripides' Medea, 83
* Euripides, fragment of, on death, 336
* ———, the great storehouse of noble thoughts, 361
* Events, all, how to use, 383
* Evidence, the assertion that all things are incapable of sure, 167
* Evil, the origin of, is the abuse of rationality and liberty, 123
* ———, the, in everything, is that which is contrary to the nature of the thing, 313
* ———, the nature of, does not exist in the world, 390
* ——— to men, the cause of all their, is the being unable to adapt the preconceptions (προλήψεις) to the several things, 299
* Exercise, on, 225
* Exercising himself, method of a man, 206
* Externals to the will, 92
* ———, some according to nature, and others contrary, 111
* ———, men admire and are busy about, 148
* ———, judgment from, fallacious, 352
* ——— things, that advantage can be derived from, 241 ​
* Face, the, does not express the hidden character, 106
* Faculty, rational, 3
* ———, ruling, 236
* ———, the ruling, how restored to the original authority, 159
* ———, the ruling, the material for the wise and good man, 204
* Faith and works, 354
* False, impossibility of assenting to that which appears, 215
* Familiar intimacy, on, 322
* Faults, not possible for a man to be free from all, 374
* Favorinus, 438
* Fever, a goddess at Rome, 60, 68
* Firmness in danger, 109
* Fool, a, cannot be persuaded, 146
* Forgiveness better than revenge, 419
* Fragments of Epictetus, 405
* Free persons only allowed to be educated, 100
* Free, what is, 253, 254
* ———, no bad man is, 295
* ———, who are, the question answered, 301, 302
* Freedom is obtained not by desires satisfied, but by removing desire, 322
* ——— and slavery, 406
* Friendship, 176
* ———, the test of, 177
* ———, advice about, 181
* ———, what it depends on, 180
* ———, Epictetus' opinions of, 365
* Galilaeans, 126, 345
* Games, Greek, 287
* Gellius, A., 438, 439
* Gladiators, 91
* Glorious objects in nature, the, 151
* God, what is, 65
* ———, nature of; how far described by Epictetus, 118
* ———, the works of, 122
* ———, a guide, 117, 246
* God's gifts, 23
* God knows all things, 141
* ——— in man, 48
* ——— in man, an old doctrine, 119
* God, the spirit of, in man, the doctrine of Paul and of Epictetus, 120, 121
* ——— dwelling with a man, 428
* Gods everywhere, 250
* God's law about the Good, 87
* ——— law that the stronger is always superior to the weaker, 88, 89
* God and man, kinship of, 30
* ——— and man, and man's opinions of God, 141, 142
* ———, address to, 152
* ———, the wise and good man's address to; and his submission to God's will, 284
* ——— beyond man's understanding, 21, 65
* ——— ought to be obeyed, 373
* ———, obedience to, the pleasure of, 285, 286
* God's will, 330
* ——— will should be the measure of our desires, 156
* ——— will, absolute conformity to, taught by Epictetus, 308, 309
* ——— will, when resignation to it is perfect, Bp. Butler, 348
* God, blaming, 166
* God's power over all things, 46, 47
* God, supposed limitation of his power, 340
* ———, what a man should be able to say to, 209
* ———, the father of all, 12, 23, 61
* ———, a friend of, 157
* ———, without, nothing should be attempted, 256
* ———, what he chooses is better than what man chooses, 348
* ——— and his administration of tho world, those who blame, 254
* God's existence, to deny, and eat his bread, 172
* God only, looking to, and fixing your affections on him only, 153
* ——— has sent a man to show how a life under difficulties is possible, 254
* ——— has made all things perfect, ​and the parts of the universe for the use of the whole, 346
* God and the gods, 12
* Gods, various opinions on the, 41, 42
* ———, actions acceptable to the, 45
* ———, man must learn the nature of the, and try to be like them, 141
* ———, we ask for what they do not give, 408
* Goethe, 19, 251
* Gold tested by a certain stone, 419
* Good and bad, each a certain kind of will, 87
* ———, bad, and things indifferent, 164
* ——— and evil consist in the will, intention, 130
* ——— could not exist without evil, 43
* ——— and evil; Chrysippus and Simplicius, 43
* ———, the, where it is, 253
* ———, the nature (οὐσία) of, 118
* ——— man, a, not unhappy, 272
* Gospel precepts which Christians do not observe, 289
* Gyarus, Gyara, 75
* Gyara, 284, 285, 330
* Habit, how to oppose, 80
* ——— and faculty, how maintained and increased, 158, 159
* ——— how weakened and destroyed, 160
* Habits must be opposed by contrary habits, 226, 227
* Habit cherished by corresponding acts, 288
* Halteres, 15, 327
* Hand-kissing, 62
* Handles, two, every thing has, 399
* Happiness and desire of what is not present never come together, 272
* ———, only one way to, 331
* Harpaston, a ball, 110
* Hearing, he who is fit for, moves the speaker, 192
* Hector's address to Andromache, 264
* Hellenes, quarrels among the, 178
* Helvidius, Priscus, 10
* Heraclitus, 229
* ——— and Zeno, 99
* Hercules, 152, 161, 256, 361
* Hippocrates, 154
* Homer, what he meant when he wrote certain things, 366
* Hope, Thales' opinion of, 424
* Human intelligence is a part of the divine, 44
* ——— race, the, continuance of, how secured, 187
* ——— being, a, definition of 198
* Hypocrite, the, 356
* Hypothesis (ὑπόθεσις), 91
* Ideas innate, of good and evil, 131
* Idiotes, ἰδιώτης, the meaning of, 95
* ———, ἰδιώτης, a common person, 240
* Ignorance the cause of doing wrong, 78
* Ignorant man, description of an, 190
* Iliad, the, is only appearances and the use of appearances, 84
* Immortality of the soul; Socrates and Epictetus, 231
* Impressions, φαντασίαι, guard against, 397
* Indifferent, things which are, 64
* Indifference of things; of the things which are neither good nor bad, 112
* Informers at Rome, 375
* Initiated, the, μύσται, 310
* Injustice, an act of, a great harm to the doer, 334
* Inn, an, πανδοκεῖον, 187
* Interest, self; and common interest or utility, 61
* ———, every animal attached to its own, 178
* Invincible, how a man should be, 59
* ———, how a man can be, 386
* Jesus, prayer of, 31
* ——— and Socrates compared by Baur, 321
* ——— and of Socrates, the death of, contrasted by Rousseau, 321 ​
* Καλὸς καὶ ἀγαθός, 201
* Know thyself, the maxim, 58, 197
* ——— thyself, the beginning of knowledge, 320
* Know thyself, the precept written at Delphi, 437
* Κόσμος, sense of, 282
* Κύριος, the use of, 92
* Laius, 197
* Lateranus, Plautius, 6
* Laticlave, the, 72
* Law of life is the acting conformably to nature, 77
* ———, the divine, 150
* Laws, the, sent from God, 325
* Law, what it is, 350
* ———, nature of, 429
* Learning and teaching, what they mean, 125
* Levin's Lectures, 17, 80, 82
* Liberty, what men do for, 321
* Life and practice of the civilized world, the, 245
* ——— human, a warfare, 273, 274
* ——— the science of, 303, 312
* ——— of the dead rests in the remembrance of the living, 320
* Lions, tame, 297
* Logic is necessary, proof that, 192
* Logical art is necessary, the, 52
* Love, a divine power, 316
* Loves mankind, who, 407
* Love, to, is only in the power of the wise, 176
* Lycurgus, 170, 415
* Lycurgus' generous behaviour, 419
* Man and other animals, 5, 20
* ——— and beasts, how distinguished, 123
* ——— a spectator of God and his works, and an interpreter, 20
* Man's powers, 73, 74, 182
* Man, powers in often no exercised, 73
* ——— and a stork, the difference between, 85
* ———, what is a, 111
* ———, what is he? 123
* Man is improved or destroyed by corresponding acts, 124
* ———, a, who has looked after every thing rather than what he ought, 143
* Man supposed to consist of a soul and a body, 252
* Man's own, what it is, 277
* Man, for what purpose God introduced him into the world, 310, 311
* ———, character of a, who is a fool and a beast, 336
* Man's nature is to seek the Good;and Bp. Butler's opinion, 338
* ———, a, opinions only make his soul impregnable, 337
* ——— great faculties, 346
* Man is that power which uses the parts of his body and understands the appearances of things, 350
* ———, a, contemptible when he is unable to do any good, 420
* Manumission, 100
* Marry, not to; and not to engage in public affairs, were Epicurean doctrines, 215
* Marriage, 187
* ———, the Roman censor Metellus on, 187
* ———, Paul's opinion of; and the different opinion of Epictetus, 258
* ——— of a minister of God, in the opinion of Epictetus in the present state of things, 259
* ———, the true nature of, not understood by Paul, 317
* Massurius and Cassius, Roman lawyers, 325
* Masters, our, those who have the power over the things which we love and hate and fear, 302
* Materials, ύλαι, are neither good nor bad, 108
* Matthew, c. vi., 31, 33
* Measure of every act, 84
* Medea, 155
* Menoeceus, 242 ​
* Milesiaca, 358
* Money not the best thing, 388
* Murrhina vasa, 221
* Names, examination of, the beginning of education, 53
* ———, a man must first understand, 142
* Nature, acting according to, 37, 38
* ———, power of, 169
* ———, following; a manner of speaking, just and true, Bp. Butler, 198
* ———, living, according to; Zeno's principle, 198
* ——— of man, 313
* ——— of every thing which pleases or supplies a want, consider what is the, 381
* ———, the will of, how known, 389
* ———, the, of evil does not exist in the world, 390
* Nero, 9
* ———, coins of, 335
* News, not to be disturbed by, 239
* Nicias, 420
* Nicopolis, 63, 71, 112, 174
* Obstinacy, on, 144
* Obstinate person who is persuaded to change his mind, instance of an, 145
* Opinion, 162, 386
* Opinions, right, the consequences of the destruction of, 85
* ——— put in practice which are contrary to true opinions, 125
* ——— disturb us, 150
* ——— about things independent of the will, 207
* Opinion the cause of a man's acting, 219
* ———, when the need of it comes, ought to be ready, 222
* Opinions, the power of, 338
* ———, right and wrong, and their consequences, 346
* ———, not things disturb men, 381
* ———, fixed principles, how acquired, 420
* Organs of sense and limbs are instruments used by the living man, Bp. Butler, 350
* Ορμή, 15
* Ostentation, those who read and discuss for, 264
* Ουσία, 29, 87
* ———, substance or nature of Good, 214
* ———, Nature of man cannot be
* ———, altogether pure, 367
* Paedagogue, a, 425
* Pancratium, Pentathlon, 195
* Paradoxes, paralogies, 76
* Partisan, an unseemly, 207
* Patronus, the Roman word, 221
* Paul, imperfect quotation from, by Mrs. Carter, 243
* ——— and Epictetus contemporary, 283
* ——— and Epictetus do not agree about marriage, 317
* Penalties for those who disobey the divine administration, 225
* Perception, 82
* Periodical renovation of things, 99
* Peripatetics, the, 165
* Persons who tell you all their affairs and wish to know yours, 375
* Persuasion, a man has most power of, with himself, 359
* Φαινόμενον, τὸ: φαντασία, 86
* Φαντασίαι, visa animi, 161
* ———, visa animi, Gellius, 439
* Φαντασία, an imagination of thing to come, which will bring good 322
* Phidias, 21, 121, 122
* Philosophy, 387
* ———, what it promises, 49, 230
* ———, the beginning of, 79, 132
* ——— should be practical, 315
* ———, how to know that we have made progress in, 400
* Philosopher, a, 401
* ———, the work of a, 140, 141
* ———, first business of a, 153
* ———, a real, described, 166
* Philosophers in words only, 162 ​
* Philosophers' rules applied to practice, 328
* Piety and a man's interest must be in the same thing, 81
* ———, and sanctity are good things, 170
* ——— to the Gods, what it is, 392
* ——— and a man's interest, how they are connected, 393
* Pirate, how treated by a wise and good man, 427
* Pittacus' teaching, that forgiveness is better than revenge, 419
* Plato and Hippocrates, 28
* ——— says that every soul is unwillingly deprived of the truth, 83
* Plato's saying, 160
* ——— doctrine that every mind is deprived of truth unwillingly, 181
* ——— Polity read by the women in Rome, 417
* Pleasure, nature of, 416
* Polemon and Xenocrates, 196
* Polybius on the Roman state, 170
* Polynices and Eteocles, 393
* Poor, if, be content and happy, 410
* Poverty and wealth, 411, 430
* Practice in hearing, necessary for those who go to hear philosophers, 189
* Praecognitions (προλήψεις), adaptation of, to particular cases, 66, 67
* Preconception, πρόληψις, 8
* Preconceptions, how fitted to the several things, 131
* ———, how to be adapted to their correspondent objects, 154
* Principle, the ruling, of a bad man cannot be trusted, 180
* Principles, general; and their application, 77
* ——— ought always to be in readiness, 105
* Principle, the, on which depends every movement of man and God, 205
* Principles, he who has great, knows his own powers, 357
* Procrastination dangerous, 374
* Προαιρετική δύναμις, or προαίρεσις, in the larger sense, 183
* Protagoras and Hippias, 211
* Providence, 19, 41, 50, 51
* ———, πρόνοια, 141
* ———, on; προνοίας, περί, 238
* Publicani, εικοστώναι, 298
* Purity, cleanliness, a man is distinguished from other animals by, 366
* Pyrrho, 80
* ——— and the Academics, 81
* Pyrrho's saying, 424
* Pythagoras' golden verses, 222
* Pythagoras, 344
* Pythian God, the, 394
* Quails, how used by the Greeks, 287
* Reading, Bp. Butler's remarks on, 326
* ———, what ought to be the purpose of, 326, 331
* Reason; reasoning, the purpose of, 24, 52, 64
* ———, power of communing with God, 30
* ———, how it contemplates itself, 63
* ——— not given to man for the purpose of misery, 271
* Reasoning, 26
* Recitations, houses lent for, 267
* ——— at Rome, 396
* Reformation of manners produced by the Gospel, 149
* Relations, three, between a man and other things, 141
* Resurrection of Christ; and Paul's doctrine of man's resurrection, 283
* ——— of the body, various opinions of divines of the English Church on, 284
* Riches and happiness, 409
* Rings, golden, worn by the Roman Equites, 299
* Rome, dependents wait on great men at, 331
* Rufus, C. Musonius, 7, 27, 34, 212, 236, 268 ​
* Rule, a, the value of, 86
* Rules, by which things are tried, must be fixed; and then the rules may be applied, 133
* Rules, certain, should be in readiness, 373
* Sacred are the words by themselves, men say, 246
* Sarpedon, son of Zeus, 81
* Saturnalia, 74, 80, 302.
* Savigny on free will, 55
* Sceptics, the, deny the knowledge and certainty of things, 81
* Scholasticus, a, 41
* School, who come to the, for the purpose of being improved? 174
* ———, the, with what mind it ought to be entered, 175
* ———, philosopher's, a surgery, 268
* Secret matters require fidelity and corresponding opinions, 377
* Seeming to be is not sufficient, 132
* Self-knowledge, γνῶθι σεαυτόν, 256
* Self-love, self-regard, 61
* Sickness, how we ought to bear, 222, 223
* Signal to quit life, God's, 89
* ———, the, to retire, 99
* ———, the, to retreat, 293
* Simplicius, 1
* ———, commentary of, on the Encheiridion, 390, 404
* Slave, a, why he wishes to be set free, 298
* ———, a, does not secure happiness by being made free, 298, 299
* Socrates, 12, 30, 33, 41, 53, 76, 99, 101, 103, 104, 110, 115, 139, 160, 227, 228, 233, 237, 251, 267, 268, 284, 354, 400, 403
* ——— and his treatment by the Athenians, 88
* ——— preferred death to saying and doing things unworthy of him, 90
* ——— and the Phaedon of Plato, 95
* ——— taught that we must not do wrong for wrong, 129
* Socrates, the method of, 134, 135
* ——— knew by what the rational soul is moved, 193
* ———, what he says to his judges, 197
* Socrates did not profess to teach virtue, 210
* ———, imitators of, 217
* ——— loved his children, how, 277
* ———, Diogenes, and Cleanthes, as examples, 292
* ———, what he taught, 299
* ———, heroic acts of, 319
* ———, a brave soldier and a philosopher, 319
* ———, remembrance of what he did or said in his life, even more useful now, 320
* ——— in his prison wrote a hymn to Apollo, 329
* ——— avoided quarrels, 333
* ———, how he managed his household, 338
* ———, why he washed seldom, 369
* ——— opinion on divination, 394
* ——— and Diogenes, 151, 247, 275, 349, 358
* Solitary, he is not, who sees the great objects of nature, 231
* Solitude, on, 228
* Solon's wise sayings, 421
* Sophists, against the, 244
* Sorrow of another, how far Epictetus would endeavour to stop, 272
* Souls, human, parts of God, 47
* Soul, body and things external relate to man's, 213
* ——— and body, severance of, no harm in the, 224
* ———, existence of the, independent of the body, perhaps not taught by Epictetus, 282
* ———, the probable opinion of Epictetus on the, 347
* ———, the impurity of the, is her own bad judgments (opinions), 367
* Speaking, the power of, 182
* Spirit, πνεύμα, 182
* Sportulae, 363 ​
* Stars, number of, neither even nor odd, 83
* ——— number of the, 147
* Stobaeus, 405
* Stoics, doctrine of the, 35
* ———, the language of the, formed long before that of the New Testament writers, 93
* Stoic opinions, the mere knowledge of, does not make a man a Stoic, 126
* ———, who is a, 165
* Stoics taught that a man should live an active life, and should marry and beget children, 187
* ———, the, say one thing and do another, 215
* ———, practical teaching of the, 244
* ——— and the Pyrrhonists and Academics, dispute between, 82
* Sufferings useful, whether we choose or not, 288
* Suicide, 32, 33
* Superiors, the many can only imitate their, 207
* Swedenborg, 47, 120, 123
* Sympathy, Epictetus' opinion on, 385
* Symposium of Xenophon, 135, 333
* Teacher, fitness of, and ordering of a, 247
* Θαυμάζειν, admirari, to overvalue, 87
* Θαυμάζειν, admirari, 305
* Θέλειν, Βούλεσθαι, 308, 384
* Themistocles, 430
* Theopompus, 154
* Θεωρήματα, 403
* Theorems, why they are said to be useless, 175
* ———, the use of, 220
* Thermopylae, the Spartans who died at, 171
* Thersites, 249
* Things, bond of union among, 46
* ——— under the inspection of God, 46
* ———, the power of using and estimating, 182
* Things, a man is overpowered by before he is overpowered by a man, 279
* ———, some in our power and some not, 378, 435
* ——— not lost, but restored, 383
* ———, some, incomprehensible; and what is use of them, if they are comprehended? 437
* Thirty tyrants of Athens, the, 139
* Thrasea, Paetus, 6
* Three things in which a man should exercise himself, 201
* Toreutic art, 216
* Tranquil life, a, how secured, 382
* Tranquillity, the product of virtue, 14, 17
* ———, of, 103
* ——— of mind and freedom, man should strive to attain, 152
* ———, to those who desire to pass life in, 325
* Treasure, the, where it is, there the heart is also, 179
* Trifles on which men employed themselves, 265, 289
* Triumphs, Roman, 281
* Truth, in, the nature of evil and good is, 101
* ———, 414
* ———, the nature of, 432
* Tyranny in the time of Epictetus, 96
* ——— under the Roman Emperors, 102
* Ulysses and Hercules, 271
* ——— and Nausicaa, 294
* Unbelievers, the creed of, 170
* Unhappiness is a man's own fault, 270
* Universe, 21
* ———, the nature of the, 431
* Unjust, that which is, a man cannot do without suffering for it, 312
* Untaught, the, is a child in life, 241
* Vespasian, 10
* Victory, figure of, 121 ​
* Virtue's reward is in the acts of virtue, 276
* Virtue is its own reward, 360
* Visa animi, Gellius, 439
* Wealth, 409
* ———, how gained, 421
* What is a man? 123
* Will, προαίρεσις, 6, 16, 23, 40, 45, 67
* ———, 109
* ——— to act, 39, 67
* ——— cannot be compelled to assent, 54
* ———, things independent of the, are neither good nor bad, 62
* ———, good and evil in the, 73, 147
* ——— only conquers will, 88
* ———, the, nothing superior to the faculty of, 127
* ———, friendship depends on the, 179, 180
* ——— the faculty of the, and its powers, 182, 184
* ———, perverted, 184
* ———, a faculty, and set over the other faculties, 184
* ———, when it is right, uses all the other faculties, 185
* ———, the cause of happiness, or of unhappiness, 186
* ———, the Good is in a right determination of the, 205
* ———, doing something useful for the exercise of the, 209
* Will, the, can only hinder or damage itself, 241
* ——— of the Cynic and his use of appearances, 263
* ———, things out of the power of the, 329
* ———, the, must be exercised, 359
* ———, man's, put by God in obedience to himself only, 373
* ——— of God, conformity to, 42
* Woman, war about a handsome, 179
* Women being common by nature; what does it mean? 107
* ———, slaves to, 296, 297
* World, the, one city, 271
* Wrong, a man never does, in one thing and suffers in another, 210
* Xanthippe, the ill-tempered wife of Socrates, 338
* ——— and Socrates, 436
* Xenocrates and Polemon, 370
* Ξύστρα, the Roman strigilis, 368
* Zeno, founder of the Stoic sect, 65, 107
* ——— and Antigonus, 138
* ——— and Socrates, 274
* Zeno's opinions, 353
* Zeus, God, 12, 21
* ——— and the rest of the Gods, 156
* ———, the occupation of, 229
* ——— the father of men, 272
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