Index.
Book 0
Ch. 0
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
Ανέχου 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 re-
straint, 167
often disturb and perplex, 176
, how we must exercise our-
selves 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, 480
Arnobius, 440
Arrian, 1
Arrogance, self-conceit, οἰησις, 28
and distrust, 233
, boasting, and pride, advice
[p. 442]
against, 286, 384 337, 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 Eng-
land, 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 happi-
ness 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 no-
thing, a man who knows nothing
ought to have the, 174
Contest unequal between a charm-
ing young girl and a beginner in
philosophy, 227
Contradictions, effect of demon-
strating, 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 corre-
sponds to the modem teacher of
religion, 250
[p. 443]
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 ex-
ample, 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 con-
tradiction, 189, 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 some-
thing 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
to God and to our neighbour,
410
Duties of life discovered from names,
127
of marriage, begetting chil-
dren 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
[p. 444]
Ηγεμονικόν, τὸ, 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
Epaminoidas, 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 educa-
tion, 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 recom-
mends, 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
Eteocies 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
[p. 445]
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 an-
swered, 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 doc-
trine 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 male's opinions
of God, 141, 142
address to, 152
the wise and good man's ad-
dress 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 the
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,
[p. 446]
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 Sim-
plicius, 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,
Hellenes, quarrels among the,
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
[p. 447]
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 conform-
ably 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 re-
membrance 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 intro-
duced 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, 316
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 pre-
sent state of things, 259
the true nature of, not under
stood by Paul, 317
Massurius and Cassius, Roman
lawyers, 825
Masters, our, those who have the
power over the things which we
love and hate and fear, 302
Materials, ὕλαι, are neither good nor
bad, 108
Matthew, c. vi., 31, 33
Measure of every act, 84
Medea, 155
Menoeceus, 242
[p. 448]
Milesiaca, 358
Money not the best thing, 388
Murrhina vasa, 221
Names, examination of, the begin-
ning of education, 53
a man must first understand,
142
Nature, acting according to, 37, 38
power of, 169
, following; a manner of speak-
ing, 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 con-
trary 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 ac-
quired, 420
Organs of sense and limbs are in-
struments used by the living man,
Bp. Butler, 350
Ὁρμή, 15
Ostentation, those who read and
discuss for, 264
Οὐσία, 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 things
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
[p. 449]
Philosophers' rules applied to prac-
tice, 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 forgive-
ness is better than revenge, 419
Plato and Hippocrates, 28
says that every soul is un-
willingly deprived of the truth,
83
Plato's saying, 160
doctrine that every mind is de-
prived 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 philoso-
phers, 189
Praecognitions (προλήψεις), adapta-
tion 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 ap-
plication, 77
ought always to be in readi-
ness, 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
Προαιρετικὴ δύναμις, or προαίρεσις.
in the larger sense, 183
Protagoras and Hippias, 211
Providence, 19, 41, 50, 51
, πρόνοια, 141
, on; προνοίας, περὶ, 238
Publicani, εἰκοστώναι, 298
Purity, cleanliness, a man is dis-
tinguished from other animals
by, 366
Pyrrho, 80
and the Academies, 81
Pyrrho's saying, 424
Pythagoras' golden verses, 222
Pythagoras, 344
Pythian God, the, 394
Quails, how used by the Greeks, 28'
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 pur-
pose 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
[p. 450]
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 readi-
ness, 373
Sacred are the words by themselves,
men say, 246
Sarpedon, son of Zeus, 91
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 En-
cheiridion, 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 philo-
sopher, 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 house-
hold, 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 re-
late 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 Epic-
tetus on the, 347
, the impurity of the, is her
own bad judgments (opinions),
367
Speaking, the power of, 182
Spirit, πνεῦμα, 182
Sportulae, 363
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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 Aca-
demics, dispute between, 82
Sufferings useful, whether we choose
or not, 288
Suicide, 32, 33
Superiors, the many can only imi-
tate their, 207
Swedenborg, 47, 120, 123
Sympathy, Epictetus' opinion on,
385
Symposium of Xenophon, 135, 333
Teacher, fitness of, and ordering of
a, 247
Ταυμάζειν, admirari, to overvalue,
87
Ταυμάζειν, admirari, 305
Τέλειν, Βούλεσθαι, 308, 384
Themistocles, 430
Theopompus, 154
Τεωρήματα, 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 esti-
muiting, 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, 388
some, incomprehensible; and
what is the 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, 269
Triumphs, Roman, 281
Truth, in, the nature of evil and
good is, 104
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
Undust, 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
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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 deter-
mination 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 obe-
dience 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
Χύστρα, 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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