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THE

DISCOURSES

OF

EPICTETUS.

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BOOK III.

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CHAPTER I.

Of Finery in Dress.

§. 1. Certain young Rhetorician coming to him, with his Hair too curiously ornamented, and his Dress very fine; Tell me, says Epictetus, whether you do not think some Horses and Dogs beautiful; and so of all other Animals?

I do.

Are some Men then likewise beautiful, and others deformed?

Certainly.