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Epictetus, Discourses (ed. George Long), book 1 (search)
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Epictetus, Discourses (ed. George Long), book 1 (search)
Against those who eagerly seek preferment at Rome.
IF we applied ourselves as busily to our own work as the
old men at Rome do to those matters about which they are
employed, perhaps we also might acRome do to those matters about which they are
employed, perhaps we also might accomplish something.
I am acquainted with a man older than myself, who is now
superintendent of cornA Præfectus Annonæ, or superintendent of the supply of corn
at Rome is first mentioned by Livy (iv. 1Rome is first mentioned by Livy (iv. 12) as appointed during a
scarcity. At a later time this office was conferred on Cn. Pompeius
for five years. Maecenas (Dion. 52, c. 24) advised Augustus to make
a Praefectus Annonae or permanent offic =s te a)gora=s th=s loiph=s). He would
thus have the office formerly exercised by the aediles. at Rome, and I remember the time
when he came here on his way back from exile, and what
he said as he rel little of
life, he said, remains for me. I replied, you will not do it,
but as soon as you smell Rome, you will forget all that you
have said; and if admission is allowed even into the imperial palac
Epictetus, Discourses (ed. George Long), book 1 (search)
Epictetus, Discourses (ed. George Long), book 1 (search)
Epictetus, Discourses (ed. George Long), book 1 (search)
Epictetus, Discourses (ed. George Long), book 1 (search)
Epictetus, Discourses (ed. George Long), book 1 (search)
Epictetus, Discourses (ed. George Long), book 1 (search)
Epictetus, Discourses (ed. George Long), book 2 (search)
Of indifference.This discussion is with a young philosopher who, intending to
return from Nicopolis to Rome, feared the tyranny of Domitian, who was
particularly severe towards philosophers. See also the note on i. 24. 3.
Schweig. Compare Plin. Epp. i. 12, and the expression of Corellius
Rufus about the detestable villain, the em on? and what kind of danger is
yours, if others have false opinions? But I am in danger
of being banished. What is it to be banished? To be
somewhere else than at Rome? Yes: what then if I
should be sent to Gyara?See i. 25, note 4. If that suits you, you will go
there; but if it does not, you can go to another place
instead of Gyara, whither he also will go, who sends you
to Gyara, whether he choose or not. Why then do you
go up to Rome as if it were something great? It is not
worth all this preparation, that an ingenuous youth
should say, It was not worth while to have heard so
much and to have written so much and to have sat so long
by the side of an ol