Epictetus wrote nothing. He was born a slave in Phrygia, was lamed, was freed, taught at Nicopolis, and what survives was taken down by his pupil Arrian — the Discourses at length, and the Encheiridion, the handbook, as a digest of them. Marcus Aurelius had a copy and quotes him more than anyone else.
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No other book on this shelf shares a run of seven words with Discourses and Encheiridion that is not a formula. On the evidence of the wording, nothing here quotes it and it quotes nothing here. That is not proof of isolation — this measure cannot cross a translation, so it finds nothing between Virgil and Homer either — but there is no quotation to show.
Of the sixty counted across the shelf, the ones this book names most. A name is counted wherever it is written, whoever is speaking. Each one has a page of its own listing every chapter, in every book, that carries it.
Translator: George Long, 1877. Source: Gutenberg 10661.
The text here is George Long’s translation, 1877, public domain, from Project Gutenberg ebook 10661, set unaltered. Long prints the Greek of key terms inline in brackets; those are removed here, and nothing else is altered.
The Discourses are a selection, not the whole four books: 54 chapters as Long chose them. The Encheiridion is complete in 52 sections.
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