[2.] He drew water by night for his gardens, and studied philosophy in the day.—Diog. Laert. [Upton.]
[3.] A most characteristic feature of the whole Stoic school was its treatment of ancient mythology and legend. These things were closely and earnestly studied, with a constant view to the deeper meanings that underlay the vesture of fable, an attitude which contrasts very favorably with Plato’s banishment of the poets from his Republic for “teaching false notions about the Gods.”
Chapter IX.
[1.] Gyara, an island in the Ægean, used as a penal settlement.
Chapter X.
[1.] The captain ... the driver—literally, “to him who has knowledge” (of the given art).
[2.] Liberator—καρπιστής. The person appointed by law to carry out the ceremony of the manumission of slaves.
Chapter XI.
[1.] This chapter seems to me to contain a truth expressed so baldly and crudely as to appear a falsehood. The reader’s mind will be fixed upon the truth or falsehood according as he is or is not capable of reading Epictetus with understanding.
[2.] This earthen lamp was sold, according to Lucian, at the death of Epictetus for 3,000 drachmæ (about £120).—Adv. Indoct. 13.