Note 5 — Chapter VIII
T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston translation
Upton quotes from Cymbeline:—
“Hath Britain all the sun that shines? Day, night, Art they not, but in Britain? Prythee, think, There’s living out of Britain!”
But Epictetus means more than this in his allusion to sun and stars.—See Preface, xxiv. This passage would lead us to suppose that Epictetus believed in a personal existence continued for some time after death. In the end, however, even sun and stars shall vanish.—See ii. 13, 4.