Epictetus

(ép-ik-te'tüs,) one of the greatest philosophers of the Stoic school, B. at Hierapolis, Phrygia, abt. 60 A. D., was banished from Rome, along with the rest of the schoolmen, by order of Domitian. He retired to Nicopolis, in Epirus, 89 A. D., where it is presumed he died. His doctrines were remarkable for their high tone of morality, without the asceticism of the early Stoics. [s. 334]