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george long. EPICTETUS . VERY little is known of the life of Epictetus . It is said that he was a native of Hierapolis in Phrygia , a town between the Maeander and a branch of the Maeander named the Lycus . Hierapolis is mentioned in the ...
george long. EPICTETUS . VERY little is known of the life of Epictetus . It is said that he was a native of Hierapolis in Phrygia , a town between the Maeander and a branch of the Maeander named the Lycus . Hierapolis is mentioned in the ...
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... Epictetus was manumitted by his master ; but I can find no evidence for this statement . Epaphroditus accompanied Nero when he fled from Rome before his enemies , and he aided the miserable tyrant in killing himself . Domitian ( Sueton ...
... Epictetus was manumitted by his master ; but I can find no evidence for this statement . Epaphroditus accompanied Nero when he fled from Rome before his enemies , and he aided the miserable tyrant in killing himself . Domitian ( Sueton ...
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... Epictetus lived alone a long time . At last he took a woman into his house as a nurse for a child , which one of Epictetus ' friends was going to expose on account of his poverty , but Epictetus took the child and brought it up . Epictetus ...
... Epictetus lived alone a long time . At last he took a woman into his house as a nurse for a child , which one of Epictetus ' friends was going to expose on account of his poverty , but Epictetus took the child and brought it up . Epictetus ...
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... Epictetus . The Discourses of Epictetus with the Encheiridion and Fragments were translated into English by the learned lady Mrs. Elizabeth Carter ; who is said to have lived to the age of eighty - nine . The fourth edition ( 1807 ) ...
... Epictetus . The Discourses of Epictetus with the Encheiridion and Fragments were translated into English by the learned lady Mrs. Elizabeth Carter ; who is said to have lived to the age of eighty - nine . The fourth edition ( 1807 ) ...
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... Epictetus is generally intelligible ; but the style or manner of the author , or we may say of Arrian , who attempted to produce what he heard , is sometimes made obscure by the continual use of questions and answers to them , and for ...
... Epictetus is generally intelligible ; but the style or manner of the author , or we may say of Arrian , who attempted to produce what he heard , is sometimes made obscure by the continual use of questions and answers to them , and for ...
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