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children, 'Foresaid he, 'this also is a philosopher's dvity, to leave 

 another in the world in place of himself,' Deinonax most 

 conclusively refuted his argument by answering — ' Give me, then, 

 Epictetus, one of your own daughters.' " Again, in his book 

 " Adversus Indoctum " (ch. 13), Lucian says: — "There was a 

 certain man in our own time, and I think he is still alive, who 

 bought the earthenware lamp of Epictetus the Stoic for three 

 thousand drachmae. For I suppose he hoped, if he read by that 

 lamp at night, that the wisdom also of Epictetus would present 

 itself to him in sleep, and that he would be like that admirable 

 old man." 



Epictetus himself says in "The Discourses" (I., 18, 15) : — "I 

 also lately had an iron lamp beside my household gods ; hearing a 

 noise at the door I ran down, and found that the lamp had been 

 carried oflF. I reflected that lie who had taken it had done what 

 might have been expected. What then 1 ' To-morrow,' said I, 

 ' you will find an eartlienware lamp ; for a man loses only those 

 things which he has.'" Again, in I., 29, 21, he says: — "For 

 this reason also I lost my lamp, because the thief was superior to 

 me in wakefulness. But he bought a lamp at such a price ; for a 

 lamp Ije became a thief, for a lamp faithless, for a lamp like a 

 wild beast." 



Aulus Gellius (Noctes Atticae, II., 18) says that Epictetus 

 composed an epigram upon himself to this etiect : — "I was 

 Epictetus, a slave, and maimed in body, and in poverty an Irus, 

 and dear to the immortals." The same is found in Macrohius 

 (Saturnalia 1., 11), probably copied from Gellius. This epigram 

 is also found in the Greek antliology. It was ascribed by Planudes 

 to Leonidas of Alexandria, but without adequate reason. Brunck 

 put it among the anonymous epigrams. There is no probability 

 that Epictetus himself was the author of it, as Gellius .says he was. 

 Again, Gellius says (XV., 11) : — "In the reign of Domitian, the 

 philosophers were banished by a decree of the Senate from the 

 city and Italy ; at which time Epictetus, the philosopher, also, on 

 account of this decree of the Senate, departed from Rome to 

 Nicopolis." 



Celsus, the physician, relates the following anecdote, which is 

 found in the seventh book of Origen's work "Adversus Celsum " : — 

 " Epictetus, when his master was twisting his leg with an 

 instrument of torture, with a smile said, without the least terror, 

 ' You will break it.' And when he had broken it, he said, ' Did 



