Word: epictetus
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...summoned to the Yale "U. 5" for taking too many courses, and for being too ardent at their devotions in chapel. But as I have never been able to substantiate this, I fear that it is a lie. To return to archetypes, Cicero and Virgil were not grinds, but Epictetus was a grind. The lamp in which Epictetus burned his midnight oil is even now on exhibition in the British Museum along side of the Elgin Marbles. It is as large as a barrel. But to be a grind is it necessary to be a genius? I will not answer...