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Imaginary portrait of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epictetus" class="extiw" title="w:Epictetus">Epictetus</a>. Engraved <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontispiece" class="extiw" title="w:Frontispiece">frontispiece</a> of Edward Ivie’s Latin translation (or versification) of Epictetus’ Enchiridon, printed in Oxford in 1751. Original title of the book: “Epicteti Enchiridion Latinis versibus adumbratum. Per Eduardum Ivie A. M. Ædis Christi Alumn. […] Oxoniæ, Theatro Sheldoniano, MDCCXV. […]”

The subscription is an epigramm from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthologia_Palatina" class="extiw" title="w:Anthologia Palatina">Anthologia Palatina</a> (VII 676) and reads:

Δοῦλος Ἐπίκτητος γενόμην, καὶ σῶμ’ ἀνάπηρος,
καὶ πενίην Ἶρος, καὶ φίλος ἀθανάτοις.

“I was Epictetus the slave, and not sound in all my limbs, and poor as Irus, and beloved by the gods.” (Irus is the beggar in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey" class="extiw" title="w:Odyssey">Odyssey</a>.)

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current20:54, 2 January 2017Thumbnail for version as of 20:54, 2 January 20171,996 × 3,530 (2.47 MB)127.0.0.1 (talk)Imaginary portrait of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epictetus" class="extiw" title="w:Epictetus">Epictetus</a>. Engraved <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontispiece" class="extiw" title="w:Frontispiece">frontispiece</a> of Edward Ivie’s Latin translation (or versification) of Epictetus’ <i>Enchiridon</i>, printed in Oxford in 1751. Original title of the book: “Epicteti Enchiridion Latinis versibus adumbratum. Per Eduardum Ivie A. M. <i>Ædis Christi</i> Alumn. […] <i>Oxoniæ,</i> Theatro Sheldoniano, MDCCXV. […]”<br><p>The subscription is an epigramm from the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthologia_Palatina" class="extiw" title="w:Anthologia Palatina">Anthologia Palatina</a></i> (VII 676) and reads: </p> <dl><dd>Δοῦλος Ἐπίκτητος γενόμην, καὶ σῶμ’ ἀνάπηρος, <dl><dd>καὶ πενίην Ἶρος, καὶ φίλος ἀθανάτοις.</dd></dl> </dd></dl> “I was Epictetus the slave, and not sound in all my limbs, and poor as Irus, and beloved by the gods.” (Irus is the beggar in the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey" class="extiw" title="w:Odyssey">Odyssey</a></i>.)
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