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Epictetus, Discourses (ed. George Long), book 2 (search)
tes had wished to preserve externals, he would have come forward and said: Anytus and Melitus can certainly kill me, but to harm me they are not able? Was he so foolish as not to see that this way leads not to the preservation of life and fortune, but to another end? What is the reason then that he takes no account of his adversaries, and even irritates them?There is some difficulty here in the original. See Schweig.'s note. Just in the same way my friend Heraclitus, who had a little suit in Rhodes about a bit of land, and had proved to the judges (dikastai=s) that his case was just, said when he had come to the peroration of his speech, I will neither intreat you nor do I care what judgment you will give, and it is you father than I who are on your trial. And thus he ended the business.The words may mean either what I have written in the text, or 'and so he lost his suit.' What need was there of this? Only do not intreat; but do not also say, 'I do not intreat;' unless there is a fit