THE

DISCOURSES OF EPICTETUS;

WITH THE

ENCHEIRIDION AND FRAGMENTS.

TRANSLATED,

WITH NOTES, A LIFE OF EPICTETUS, AND A VIEW OF HIS
PHILOSOPHY,

BY GEORGE LONG.

"The important question, What is the rule of Life? is lost out of
the world."-BP, BUTLER.

"Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to
the present time; and live according to Nature the remainder which
is allowed thee."-M. ANTONINUS, Vii. 56.

LONDON: GEORGE BELL AND SONS, YORK STREET,

COVENT GARDEN.

1888.

All rights reserved.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,

STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.

ΤΟ

ESTHER LAWRENCE,

A DILIGENT READER OF EPICTETUS,

TO WHOM THE TRANSLATOR OWES MANY

USEFUL REMARKS.

CONTENTS.

BOOK I.

CHAP.

I. OF THE THINGS WHICH ARE IN OUR POWER, AND NOT
IN OUR POWER

.

II. How A MAN ON EVERY OCCASION CAN MAINTAIN HIS
PROPER CHARACTER

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.

III. HOW A MAN SHOULD PROCEED FROM THE PRINCIPLE OF
GOD BEING THE FATHER OF ALL MEN TO THE REST

IV. OF PROGRESS OR IMPROVEMENT

V. AGAINST THE ACADEMICS

VI. OF PROVIDENCE

VII, OF THE USE OF SOPHISTICAL ARGUMENTS AND HYPO-
THETICAL, AND THE LIKE

VIII. THAT THE FACULTIES ARE NOT SAFE TO THE UN-
INSTRUCTED.

IX. HOW FROM THE FACT THAT WE ARE AKIN TO GOD A
MAN MAY PROCEED TO THE CONSEQUENCES

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X. AGAINST THOSE WHO EAGERLY SEEK PREFERMENT AT
ROME.

XIII. How EVERYTHING MAY BE DONE ACCEPTABLY TO THE

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XIV. THAT THE DEITY OVERSEES ALL THINGS
XV. WHAT PHILOSOPHY PROMISES

XVII. THAT THE LOGICAL ART IS NECESSARY

XVIII. THAT WE OUGHT NOT TO BE ANGRY WITH THE ERRORS
(FAULTS) OF OTHERS

XIX. How WE SHOULD BEHAVE TO TYRANTS

XX. ABOUT REASON AND HOW IT CONTEMPLATES ITSELF
XXI. AGAINST THOSE WHO WISH TO BE ADMIRED

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