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He therefore sent to her Gaius Proculeius, a knight, and Epaphroditus, a freedman, giving them directions what they must say and do. So they obtained an audience with Cleopatra and after some accusations of a mild type suddenly laid hold of her before any decision was reached.
And if any of us inquired, "What is Epaphroditus doing?" the answer was, "He is consulting about so and so with Felicion." Had he not sold him as good-for-nothing? Who had in a trice converted him into a wiseacre? This is what comes of holding of importance anything but the things that depend on the Will. What you shun enduring yourself, attempt not to impose on others.
But Seneca's inculcation of tenderness towards slaves was in reality one of the most original of his moral teachings; and, from all that we know of Roman life, it is to be feared that the number of those who acted in accordance with it was small. Certainly Epaphroditus, the master of Epictetus, was not one of them. The historical facts which we know of this man are slight.
As Sulla was elected Dictator in B.C. 81, Plutarch's statement is correct. After saying to the people that Lucretius had been put to death by his order, Sulla told them a tale: "The lice were very troublesome to a clown, as he was ploughing. Twice he stopped his ploughing and purged his jacket. Epaphroditus signifies a favourite of Aphrodite or Venus.
In writing and transacting business with the Greeks, he styled himself Epaphroditus, and on his trophies which are still extant with us, the name is given Lucius Cornelius Sylla Epaphroditus. Moreover, when his wife had brought him forth twins, he named the male Faustus, and the female Fausta, the Roman words for what is auspicious and of happy omen.
"They will fix thy neck in a fork, flog thee to death, and hurl thy body into the Tiber," answered Epaphroditus, abruptly. Nero drew aside the robe from his breast. "It is time, then!" said he, looking into the sky. And he repeated once more, "What an artist is perishing!" At that moment the tramp of a horse was heard. That was the centurion coming with soldiers for the head of Ahenobarbus.
He told the people to hail him as 'Felix, declared that his least deliberate were his most successful actions, signed himself 'Epaphroditus' when he wrote to Greeks, named his son and daughter Faustus and Fausta, boasted that the gods held converse with him in dreams, and sent a golden crown and axe to the goddess whom he believed to be his patroness.
Of all his late crowd of courtiers only three friends now remained with him, Sporus, a servant; Phaon, a freedman; and Epaphroditus, his secretary. "'My wife, my father, and my mother doom me dead!" he bitterly cried, quoting a line from a Greek tragedy. With a last hope he bade the soldiers on duty to hasten to Ostia and prepare a ship, on which he might embark for Egypt. The men refused.
The taking of the collection not only supplies those things which are wanting to the saints, but also causes them to give more thanks abundantly to God, etc. And in Phil. 2, 25 he calls Epaphroditus a leitourgos, one who ministered to my wants, where assuredly a sacrificer cannot be understood.
Epaphroditus had seen Iras still occupied in arranging Cleopatra's ornaments. Now he endeavoured to raise her companion, saying reproachfully, "Charmian, was this well done?" Summoning her last strength, she answered in a faltering voice, "Perfectly well, and worthy a descendant of Egyptian kings."
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