CHAPTER VII.

1. Apparently a proverb, which maybe paralleled in its present application by Luther's "Pecca fortiter."

2. A complex or conjunctive proposition is one which contains several assertions so united as to form a single statement which will be false if any one of its parts is false--_e.g._, "Brutus was the lover and destroyer both of Cæsar and of his country." The disjunctive is when alternative propositions are made, as "Pleasure is either good or bad, or neither good nor bad."

3. I have followed Lord Shaftesbury's explanation of this passage, which the other commentators have given up as corrupt. It seems clear that whether the passage can stand exactly in the form in which we have it, or not, Lord Shaftesbury's rendering represents what Epictetus originally conveyed.

4. According to the usual reading, a scornful exclamation--"_Thou_ exhort them!" I have followed the reading recommended by Schw. in his notes, although he does not adopt it in his text.