Volume 1 - Discourses - Books I - II - College of Stoic Philosophers

INTRODUCTIONSlave, poor an Irus, halting as I trod,I y Epicietus, was the friend of God. 1EPIOTKTUH was a slave woman's son,, and formanyyears a slave himself. 2 The tone and temper oftiis whole life were determined thereby. An allengulfingpassion for independence and freedom so1AouAos *EirlKTif)'ro$ yevdjmiiv ical crw/j? avairrjpos Kcd tfplf]vTtyoy ical 4>iA.osr aQavdrots. An anonymous epigram (JohnChrys., Patrol. (1r. LX. Ill; Macroh. Sat.. I. 11,45; Antli.Pol. VI L 67(5), ug translated by H. Maenaghten. The ascriptionto Leonidas i,s merely a pnlaoographical blunder in partof the MS. tradition, that to Kpictetus himself (by Macrobius)a patent absurdity.>JThin IH tho explicit testimony of an undated but fairlyearly inneription from Fisidia (J. R. S. Sterrett: Papersof the Amer. School of Hl