Note 224 — BOOK VII[145]
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Epictetus (fl. 1st Century), of Hierapolis, the Stoic philosopher, was born a slave. When his master, Epaphroditus, who subsequently freed him, broke his leg for him, he was content to observe:
"I told you you would break it"
Epictetus was driven from Rome, with the other philosophers, by the Emperor Domitian; he returned later and won the esteem of the Emperors Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius.—T.