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Epictetus

[ ep-ik-tee-tuhs ]

noun

  1. a.d. c60–c120, Greek Stoic philosopher and teacher, mainly in Rome.


Epictetus

/ ˌɛpɪkˈtiːtəs /

noun

  1. Epictetus?50?120MGreekPHILOSOPHY: philosopher ?50–?120 ad , Greek Stoic philosopher, who stressed self-renunciation and the brotherhood of man
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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  • Ep·ic·te·tian [ep-ik-, tee, -sh, uh, n], adjective
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Example Sentences

A great many of the writers are philosophers, some quite famous (Epictetus).

No ancient teacher enjoined the duties based on an immutable morality with more force than Confucius, Buddha, and Epictetus.

If anybody advanced philosophy among the Romans it was Epictetus, and even he only in the realm of ethics.

Epictetus and Luella and Gladys and Gaynor had all burrowed out of sight into the ground.

Epictetus, a slave, won as complete inward freedom as Marcus Aurelius, an emperor.

The master of Epictetus, who beat him, acted basely, and the slave beaten by him showed a sublime soul.

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