{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/dep/dep059.htm","path":"cla/dep/dep059.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/dep/dep059.htm","text":"The Discourses of Epictetus, tr. by P.E Matheson, [1916]\n2-1 These were used by beaters in hunting.\n2-2 This refers to the ceremony of manumission. Epictetus may mention this so frequently because he himself was a freedman.\n2-3 'It is not certain whether in this sentence and the next Epictetus is thinking of Jews or of Christians, who at this time were often confused with them.' (Matheson)\n2-4 'Three campaigns in the cavalry or six in the infantry were the period laid down in the so-called Municipal Law of Caesar as a qualification for a seat in a municipal Senate.' (Matheson)\n2-5 The ancient cure for insanity.\n2-6 I.e., from the Marcian aqueduct at Rome.\n2-7 Cf. Book I, note 7.\n2-8 'The best-known instance of this sophism is \"Epimenides says the Cretans are always liars, but he is himself a Cretan. Does he lie or tell the truth?\"' (Matheson)\n2-9 Cf. Book II, chap. XIX.\n2-10 The text is corrupt here.\n2-11 Cf. Book II, note 8.\n2-12 'According to the Stoics the \"spirit\" of vision connected the central mind with the pupil of the eye and similarly with other senses.' (Matheson)\n2-13 Cf. Epicurus, fragment 30.","title":"The Discourses of Epictetus: Book II: Notes","type":"page"}