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 Definitions of epictetus  [ˌɛp ɪkˈti təs]  

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Definition of 'epictetus' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) Epictetus
a .d . c60–c120, Greek Stoic philosopher, mainly in Rome.


Definition of 'epictetus' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) Epictetus
Greek philosopher who was a Stoic (circa 50-130)


Definitions of 'epictetus' The Nuttall Encyclopedia 

1.  epictetus
a celebrated Stoic philosopher of the 1st century, originally a slave; lived and taught at Rome, but after the expulsion of the philosophers retired to Nicopolis, in Epirus; was lame, and lived in poverty; his conversations were collected by Arrian, and his philosophy in a short manual under the Greek name of "Enchiridion of Epictetus," written, as is alleged, in utter obliviousness of the fact that "the end of man is an action, not a thought."



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