CHAPTER II.

1. [Greek: ta men eisin eph' hêmin, ta de ouk eph' hêmin]. A fundamental distinction in the Epictetean system, which he sometimes expresses by the phrases, [Greek: ta hêmetera] and [Greek: ta tôn allôn]--things that are our own and things that belong to others; or [Greek: ta idia] and [Greek: ta allotria]--things that are our proper concern, and things that are alien to us.

2. On the Mons Palatinus in Rome there stood a temple to Fever. Upton quotes from Gruter, p. xcvii., an interesting inscription to this divinity: Febri. Divæ. Febri. Sanctæ. Febri. Magnæ. Camilla. Amata. Pro. Filio. Male. Affecto. P.