[121] ‘When you have been overcome in sexual intercourse with a person, do not reckon this single defeat only, but reckon that you have also increased your incontinence’ Epict. Disc. ii 18, 6.

[122] καὶ ἐρασθήσεσθαι δὲ τὸν σοφὸν τῶν νέων Diog. L. vii 129.

[123] Stob. iii 6, 23.

[124] ‘idem ille Epictetus solitus dicere est duo esse vitia multo omnium gravissima ac taeterrima, intolerantiam et incontinentiam, cum aut iniurias, quae sunt ferendae, non toleramus neque ferimus, aut a quibus rebus voluptatibusque nos tenere debemus, non tenemus’ A. Gellius, N. A. xvii 19, 5.

[125] ‘verba haec duo dicebat: ἀνέχου et ἀπέχου ib. 6.

[126] ‘At first fly far from that which is stronger than yourself; the contest is unequal between a charming young girl and a beginner in philosophy’ Epict. Disc. iii 12, 12.

[127] ‘id agere debemus, ut inritamenta vitiorum quam longissime profugiamus’ Sen. Ep. 51, 5; ‘ei, qui amorem exuere conatur, evitanda est omnis admonitio dilecti corporis’ ib. 69, 3.

[128] Epict. Disc. iv 1, 15-21.

[129] See above, § [349].

[130] Epict. Disc. ii 18, 24-29.