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children, ‘For,’ said he, ‘this also is a philosopher's duty, to leave 
another in the world in place of himself,’ Demonax most 
conclusively refuted his argument by answering—‘ Give me, then, 
Hpictetus, 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 drachme. 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 off. TI reflected that he who had taken it had done what 
might have been expected. What then? ‘To-morrow,’ said I, 
‘you will find an earthenware 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 he became a thief, for a lamp faithless, for a lamp like a 
wild beast.” 
Aulus Geiltus (Noctes Atticae, II., 18) says that Epictetus 
composed an epigram upon himself to this effect :-—““I was 
Epictetus, a slave, and maimed in body, and in poverty an Irus, 
and dear to the immortals.” The same is found in Macrobius 
(Saturnalia I., 11), probably copied from Gellius. This epigram 
is also found in the Greek anthology. 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 
