[246] M. Aurel. 1. 7.
[247] Enchir. 47: cf. Diss. 3. 14. 4. In Diss. 3. 12. 17, part of the above is given as a quotation from Apollonius of Tyana.
[248] Diss. 2. 18. 27; cf. 3. 2. 1; 3. 12. 1; 4. 1. 81.
[249] Nigrin. 27.
[250] Orat. xx. vol. i. pp. 288 sqq. (Dind.), περὶ Ἀναχωρήσεως.
[251] Vol. ii. p 240.
[252] Vol. ii. p. 246.
[253] Ench. 4, 13, 30.
[254] The χρῆσις φαντασιῶν is an important element in the philosophy of Epictetus. Every object that is presented to the mind by either the senses or imagination tends to range itself in the ranks of either good or evil, and thereby to call forth desire or undesire: in most men this association of particular objects with the ideas of good or evil, and the consequent stirring of desire, is unconscious, being the result of education and habit: it is the task of the philosopher to learn to attach the idea of good to what is really good, so that desire shall never go forth to what is either undesirable or unattainable: this is the “right dealing with ideas.” Diss. 1. 28. 11; 1. 30. 4; 2. 1. 4; 2. 8. 4; 2. 19. 32; 3. 21. 23; 3. 22. 20, 103.
[255] ἐφαρμογὴ τῶν προλήψεων τοῖς ἐπὶ μέρους, Diss. 1. 2. 6; 1. 22. 2, 7; 2. 11. 4, 7; 3. 17. 9, 12, 16; 4. 1. 41, 44: προλήψεις are the ideas formed in the mind by association and blending.