{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0557.tlg002.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0557.tlg002.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0557.tlg002.local001","title":"Ἐγχειρίδιον","titleGreek":"Ἐγχειρίδιον","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Epictetus","authorityName":"EPICTETUS Phil.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0557-epictetus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0557-epictetus/","editors":["Heinrich Schenkl"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Epicteti dissertationes ab Arriano digestae, editio maior","edition":null,"publisher":"Teubner","place":"Leipzig","date":"1916","volume":null,"series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["Tufts University"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Gregory Crane","Lisa Cerrato","Anne Mahoney","David Mimno"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/ldpd_10922736_000/page/620","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Epictetus. 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Epicteti dissertationes ab Arriano digestae, editio maior, Leipzig, Teubner, 1916. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0557.tlg002.local001","excerpt":"τῶν ὄντων τὰ μέν ἐστιν ἐφʼ ἡμῖν, τὰ δὲ οὐκ ἐφʼ ἡμῖν. ἐφʼ ἡμῖν μὲν ὑπόληψις, ὁρμή, ὄρεξις, ἔκκλισις καὶ ἑνὶ λόγῳ ὅσα ἡμέτερα ἔργα· οὐκ ἐφʼ ἡμῖν δὲ τὸ σῶμα, ἡ κτῆσις, δόξαι, ἀρχαὶ καὶ ἑνὶ λόγῳ ὅσα οὐχ ἡμέτερα ἔργα. καὶ τὰ μὲν ἐφʼ ἡμῖν ἐστι φύσει ἐλεύθερα, ἀκώλυτα, ἀπαραπόδιστα, τὰ δὲ οὐκ ἐφʼ ἡμῖν ἀσθενῆ, δοῦλα, κωλυτά, ἀλλότρια. μέμνησο οὖν, ὅτι, ἐὰν τὰ φύσει δοῦλα ἐλεύθερα οἰηθῇς καὶ τὰ ἀλλότρια ἴδια, ἐμποδισθήσῃ, πενθήσεις, ταραχθήσῃ, μέμψῃ καὶ θεοὺς καὶ ἀνθρώπους, ἐὰν δὲ τὸ σὸν μόνον οἰηθῇς σὸν εἶναι, τὸ δὲ ἀλλότριον, ὥσπερ ἐστίν, ἀλλότριον, οὐδείς σε ἀναγκάσει οὐδέποτε, οὐδείς σε κωλύσει, οὐ μέμψῃ οὐδένα, οὐκ ἐγκαλέσεις τινί, ἄκων πράξεις οὐδὲ ἕν, οὐδείς σε βλάψει, ἐχθρὸν οὐχ ἕξεις, οὐδὲ γὰρ βλαβερόν τι πείσῃ. τηλικούτων οὖν ἐφιέμενος μέμνησο, ὅτι οὐ δεῖ μετρίως κεκινημένον ἅπτεσθαι αὐτῶν, ἀλλὰ τὰ μὲν ἀφιέναι παντελῶς, τὰ δʼ ὑπερτίθεσθαι πρὸς τὸ παρόν. ἐὰν δὲ καὶ ταῦτʼ ἐθέλῃς καὶ…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0557.tlg002.local001/#tlg0557-tlg002-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0557.tlg002.local001/#tlg0557-tlg002-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0557.tlg002.local001/#tlg0557-tlg002-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0557.tlg002.local001/#tlg0557-tlg002-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0557.tlg002.local001/#tlg0557-tlg002-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0557.tlg002.local001/#tlg0557-tlg002-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0557.tlg002.local001/#tlg0557-tlg002-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0557.tlg002.local001/#tlg0557-tlg002-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 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41","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0557.tlg002.local001/#tlg0557-tlg002-local001-41"},{"label":"Chapter 42","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0557.tlg002.local001/#tlg0557-tlg002-local001-42"},{"label":"Chapter 43","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0557.tlg002.local001/#tlg0557-tlg002-local001-43"},{"label":"Chapter 44","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0557.tlg002.local001/#tlg0557-tlg002-local001-44"},{"label":"Chapter 45","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0557.tlg002.local001/#tlg0557-tlg002-local001-45"},{"label":"Chapter 46","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0557.tlg002.local001/#tlg0557-tlg002-local001-46"},{"label":"Chapter 47","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0557.tlg002.local001/#tlg0557-tlg002-local001-47"},{"label":"Chapter 48","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0557.tlg002.local001/#tlg0557-tlg002-local001-48"},{"label":"Chapter 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