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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• Quails, how used by the Greeks, 287
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• Xanthippe, the ill-tempered wife of Socrates, 338
• ——— and Socrates, 436
• Xenocrates and Polemon, 370
• Ξύστρα, the Roman strigilis, 368
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• 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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