THE WORKS OF EPICTETUS, CONSISTING OF HIS DISCOURSES, IN FOUR BOOKS, PRESERVED BY ARRIAN, THE ENCHIRIDION, AND FRAGMENTS. BY THE Translated from the Original Greek, LATE MRS. ELIZABETH CARTER. WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES, BY THE TRANSLATOR. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. THE FOURTH EDITION, With the Translator's last Additions and Alterations. LONDON: PRINTED FOR F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON, NO. 62, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD.` By Law and Gilbert, St. John's Square, Clerkenwell. 1807. TABLE ........... Chap. II. In what a Proficient ought to be exercised; and that we neglect the principal things......... Chap. III. What is the Subject-matter of a good Man; and in what we chiefly ought to be Practitioners..... Chap. XXII. Of the Cynic Philosophy . . . . Chap. XXIV. That we ought not to be affected, by things Chap. V. Concerning the Quarrelsome, and Ferocious.... 220 THE DISCOURSES OF EPICTETUS. BOOK III. CHAP. I. Of Finery in Dress. §. 1. A Certain young Rhetorician coming to him, with his hair too curiously ornamented, and his dress very fine; Tell me, says Epictetus, whether you do not think some Horses and Dogs beautiful; and so of all other Animals? I do. Are some Men then likewise beautiful, and others deformed? Certainly. Do we call each of these beautiful then in its kind, on the same account, or on some VOL. II. B account |