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Updated: May 11, 2025
She had literary aspirations, and just after her twenty-first birthday she submitted to Burnet, with the following letter, a translation of "Encheiridion" of Epictetus from the Latin version. This will be found in the collected works. "July 20, 1710. "My Lord,
There is a story that the master broke his slave's leg by torturing him; but it is better to trust to the evidence of Simplicius, the commentator on the Encheiridion, or Manual, who says that Epictetus was weak in body and lame from an early age. It is not said how he became a slave; but it has been asserted in modern times that the parents sold the child.
In the "Encheiridion Epictete" a "Handbook to Epictetus" compiled and condensed from the chaos of the almost verbatim "Discourses" Arrian gives the most authentic account of the philosophy of the Greek and Roman Stoics, the sect founded by Zeno about 300 years before the Christian era, which flourished until the decline of Rome. Arrian himself was born about 90 A.D. at Nicomedia.
Elizabeth Pierrepont Her early taste for reading She learns Latin, and, presently, Italian Encouraged in her literary ambitions by her uncle, William Feilding, and Bishop Bumet Submits to the Bishop a translation of "Encheiridion" of Epictetus An attractve child A "toast" at the Kit-Cat Club Acts as hostess to her father.
At last he took a woman into his house as a nurse for a child, which one of Epictetus' friends was going to expose on account of his poverty, but Epictetus took the child and brought it up. Simplicius also says that the contents of the Encheiridion are found nearly altogether and in the same words in various parts of the Discourses. Arrian also wrote a work on the life and death of Epictetus.
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