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(=), V. 20; VI. 32, 41, 45; VII. 31; VIII. 56; XI. 16; things indifferent, i.e. neither good nor bad = (1) things absolutely indifferent, such as the number of pebbles on the shore; (2), things to be chosen as having a relative value, as good health; (3) , to be rejected, as of less relative value, cp. Fronto, De Eloq. Nab. p. 143

, IV. 4, 21; VIII. 54; IX. 9; x. 7, § 2. From a comparison of these we get =  (earth),  (water),  =  (X. 7, § 2, the spiritual or pneumatic into airy or aerial),  (fire) = ? , cp. XI. 20

,, (see Seneca. Ep. 65), the Causal. Formal, Formative Principle which makes a thing what it is, contrasted with (matter), IV. 21; VI. 5 ; VII. 29; VIII. 3, 11; XII. 8, 10, 18, 29; the Primary Cause, or Nature, or God, VIII. 27; IX. 29; the Individual Cause in Man. VIII. 7; IX. 31; x. 26; the Quality of the Cause, i.e. the power it has of making a thing what it is, IX. 25; absorbed into the of the Universe, VII. 10; Destiny, the primal Cause and sum of all lower causes, v. 8

,, inpossibility of any certain conviction, v. 10; VII. 54. It was the main position of the Sceptics that nothing could be really known, but even Socrates and his successors said similar things. Epictetus stoutly maintains the contrary

, one who selfishly disregards the common interests and cuts himself adrift from his fellows, II. 1, 2; III. 5; VIII. 34; x. 6; XI. 18 ad fin.; XII. 23

, the reference of a thing to its end or purpose, its relation to its objective, with Cause and Matter making up the whole thing, xii. 8, 10, 18, 20

, (i) the true value or worth of things, (2) the relative value of things preferential, III. 11; VI. 3, etc.

, the passionless calm of the true Stoic, I. 9 (of Sextus); VI. 16; xi. 18 ad fin.; cp.

, words only found (it seems) in Marcus are: 1. 8; † Χ. 19; IV. 20; Χ. 36; VI. 30; III. 4; IV 22; XII. 14; 1. 16;  Χ. 9; IX. 3; V. 4;  V. 5;  IV. 33; VII. 54; † III. 7; (?) vi. 13; † 1. 15 ; Ι. 1; 1. 16;  VII. 3; ΙV. 48; vi. 13; ΙΧ. 3; XI. 8; Χ. 8; XII. 5; 1.15;  XI. 10; IV. 49; Ι. 16; ΙΧ. 29; IV. 20; 409