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3 Antisthenes, about 400 B C, founder of the Cynic school, which was established by hies (hence the name) As a Cynic, his authority would, of course, be respected by the hearers of Epictetus This investigation of ter of philosophy and the guide to truth in any sphere, but perhaps not every one is competent to undertake it There must be a real and not merely a formal appreciation of the contents of each ter to Peter Bell and another to Wordsworth The ter to a Herbert Spencer and another to a Kant
CHAPTER XXII
1 ”My friends, fly all culture,” is an injunction reported of Epicurus (_Diog L_ x 6) However, neglect of form in literary style was a characteristic of philosophic writers of the hellenistic period, which was by no means confined to the Epicureans
2 This passage is corrupt I follow the reading adopted by Schweighauser (after Wolf); but it hauser's translation follows another reading than that which he adopts in his text, viz-????????? (being inal, in all versions, is ????????, which makes no sense at all-See Preface, xxiii
3 The writings enu, he wrote in a letter to a friend (_Diog L_ x 22) that he was spending a happy day, and his last
4 Stoic ?p??e?a was anything but insensibility Chrysippus held that s in the Kosmos were created for their beauty alone-_Zeller_, 171
5 There is another short chapter on the arts of ratiocination and expression (I viii _Schw_), which glances at the subject from a somewhat different point of view froiven There Epictetus dwells chiefly on the danger that weak spirits should lose theeneral, in every faculty acquired by the uninstructed and feeble there is danger lest they be elated and puffed up through it For how could one contrive to persuade a young e to thee to him?”
CHAPTER XXVI
1 The first of these quotations is from the Stoic Cleanthes, the second from a lost play of Euripides; in the third Epictetus has joined together two sayings of Socrates, one froia_ Anytus and Meletus were the principal accusers of Socrates in the trial which ended in his sentence to death