Enchiridion
52 chapters in Carter’s numbering, chapter XXIX among them
The Enchiridion, or Manual, is the digest that Arrian made of his master’s teaching: some fifty short chapters, most of them a few lines, which begin with the division of things into what is in our power and what is not. Everything else in the book follows from that first chapter, whether it treats of illness, of an insult, of a broken cup, or of the part one is given to play.
The English text here is Elizabeth Carter’s translation, published in 1758, the first complete English Epictetus and the one still reprinted. Carter numbers the chapters from I to LII. Her chapter XXIX is the one modern editions also print as Discourses III, 15; our file carries that concordance above it. Her numbering runs with the modern one as far as chapter L, which takes in what modern editions number 50 and 51; her LI is then the modern LII, and her LII the modern LIII. An extract is cited as Enchiridion, V, in Carter’s numbering, with the line of the file. This site does not yet give the Manual chapter by chapter; the work is described on the page of Epictetus, and its extracts below come from Carter’s text.
In the edition of Elizabeth Carter, 1758
In our Power are Opinion, Pursuit, Desire, Aversion, and in one Word, whatever are our own Actions.
Men are disturbed, not by Things, but by the Principles and Notions, which they form concerning Things.
Sickness is an Impediment to the Body, but not to the Faculty of Choice, unless itself pleases.
Remember that you are an Actor in a Drama, of such a Kind as the Author pleases to make it.
Be for the most part silent: or speak merely what is necessary, and in few Words.
Every Thing hath two Handles; the one, by which it may be borne; the other, by which it cannot.
In Stoic+: 27 passages of this work, each with its reference.
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Seneca and Epictetus are in Stoic+: 27 passages of this work in the app, each with its reference.