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 PREFACE.

THE Enchiridion of Epictetus, as the name itself indicates, (it being derived from the two Greek words, én and cheirº) is a "Manual" of the Stoic Philosophy. We have, perhaps, no production of the ancient philosophers which has, at all times, and from all classes of persons, met with more deserved esteem and just admiration than this work of Epictetus; which, as a Compendium of the Stoic Philosophy, contains the essence of all that was good, useful, and instructive in that system. Zeno, the founder of this sect of philosophers, was a man who en- joyed, in his day, the respect and esteem of all who knew him; and no man could be more highly valued, or looked up to with a greater degree of reverence and veneration, than was he by his countrymen, the Athenians. He was himself a model and pattern of the practice of every virtue which he taught, and every principle which he inculcated. His life, as well as that of Epictetus, and of all those who walked in the doctrines of the "Porch," was distinguished for strict morality, propriety of demeanour, and a love of civil liberty. • Greek character thus, Ev and xelp.