CHAPTER V.

1. Administrator, [Greek: diorthôtês]; in Latin, _Corrector_--a State officer of whom inscriptions, etc., make frequent mention, but of whose functions not much appears to be known beyond what the present chapter of Epictetus reveals.

2. Cassiope was a port of Epirus, not far from Nicopolis, where Epictetus taught. Schw. conjectures that Maximus was sending his son to study philosophy at Nicopolis under Epictetus.

3. "For a correct view of these matters will reduce every movement of preference and avoidance to health of body and tranquillity of soul; for this is the perfection of a happy life."--Epicurus, _Diog. Laert._ x. 128. Epictetus's analysis of the Epicurean theory amounts to this, that the pleasure of the soul is the chief good, but that it is only felt through the body and its conditions.

4. _The overseer of youth._--An officer in certain Greek cities. See Mahaffy's _Greek Life and Thought_, ch. xvii., on the organization of the _ephebi_.

5. _Aid in works that are according to Nature._--The Greek is--[Greek: en tois kata physin ergois parakratê]. There is some difference of opinion among commentators as to the meaning of [Greek: parakratê]. Wolf translates, "hold the chief place" in natural works. Upton, Schw., and Long render it by "keep us constant," "sustain us," in such works. I do not see why we should not take the word in its plainest sense--that pleasure should _act together with other forces_ in leading us to do well.