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The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, with the Hymn of Cleanthes

English translation · Translated by Hastings Crossley

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The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, with the Hymn of Cleanthes, is a collection of sayings translated and arranged by Hastings Crossley. The sayings are numbered in Roman numerals, and the numbering runs to at least CLXXXIX.

Saying IX says that God is the Father of men as well as of gods, and that anyone fully convinced of this would never think anything ignoble or base of himself. It sets that thought beside the intolerable haughty looks you would wear if Caesar adopted you. Saying XCIII addresses a man sailing to Rome to obtain the post of Governor of Cnossus and asks when he ever made a voyage to review his own principles. In one passage a speaker says he wants to be the purple, the small shining part that makes the rest seem fair, and not one thread among many. Later sayings hold that there is no Hades and that all things are full of beings spiritual and divine, and ask what a man would wish to be found doing when Death overtakes him.

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Epictetus

Was born into slavery in Phrygia, worked in Rome for a secretary of Nero, was lamed for life, and was eventually freed and exiled along with every other philosopher when Domitian expelled them. He wrote nothing. The Discourses and the shorter Enchiridion were taken down by his student Arrian, which is the same route by which Socrates survives.

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Author: Epictetus
Reading time: About 100 minutes
Pages: 70
Language: English
Genre: Classics
Formats: PDF, EPUB, Read online