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... death for this service to Nero . We may conclude that Epictetus in some way obtained his freedom , and that he began to teach at Rome ; but after the expulsion of the philosophers from Rome by Domitian A.D. 89 , he retired to Nicopolis ...
... death for this service to Nero . We may conclude that Epictetus in some way obtained his freedom , and that he began to teach at Rome ; but after the expulsion of the philosophers from Rome by Domitian A.D. 89 , he retired to Nicopolis ...
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... death of Epictetus . The events of the philosopher's studious life were probably not many nor remarkable ; but we should have been glad if this work had been preserved , which told , as Simplicius says , what kind of man Epictetus was ...
... death of Epictetus . The events of the philosopher's studious life were probably not many nor remarkable ; but we should have been glad if this work had been preserved , which told , as Simplicius says , what kind of man Epictetus was ...
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... death , and lived to the times of Vespasian and his son Titus . He acquired great reputation as a teacher , but there is no evidence that he wrote anything , and all that we know of his doctrines is from a work of Pollio.in 1 Article ...
... death , and lived to the times of Vespasian and his son Titus . He acquired great reputation as a teacher , but there is no evidence that he wrote anything , and all that we know of his doctrines is from a work of Pollio.in 1 Article ...
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... death , and caution against the fear of death : but now we do the contrary , and employ against death the attempt to escape ; and to our opinion about it we employ carelessness , rashness and indifference " ( ii . c . 1 ) . For the ...
... death , and caution against the fear of death : but now we do the contrary , and employ against death the attempt to escape ; and to our opinion about it we employ carelessness , rashness and indifference " ( ii . c . 1 ) . For the ...
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... Death , the opinions are very different . And what is Death ? ( p . 230 in xi THE PHILOSOPHY OF EPICTETUS .
... Death , the opinions are very different . And what is Death ? ( p . 230 in xi THE PHILOSOPHY OF EPICTETUS .
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