[Nicias was so fond of labour (assiduous) that he often asked his slaves, if he had bathed and if he had dined.]1
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1 LXXIII.—LXXV.—Schweig. has inclosed these three fragments in [ ]. They are not from Epictetus, but from Plutarch's treatise αἰ πρεσβυτέρμ πολιτευτέον.
The Discourses of Epictetus, with the Encheridion and Fragments. Epictetus. George Long. translator. London. George Bell and Sons. 1890.
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