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en-wikipedia-org-568		Epictetus - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	6382	839	67	Musonius Rufus, Socrates, Diogenes, Zeno of Citium, Cleanthes, Chrysippus, Hippocrates Epictetus was born around AD 50,[4][5] presumably at Hierapolis, Phrygia.[6] The name his parents gave him is unknown; the word epíktētos (ἐπίκτητος) in Greek simply means "gained" or "acquired";[7] the Greek philosopher Plato, in his Laws, used the term to mean property that is "added to one's hereditary property".[8] He spent his youth as a slave in Rome to Epaphroditos, a wealthy freedman and secretary to Nero.[9] Early in life, Epictetus acquired a passion for philosophy and, with the permission of his wealthy enslaver, he studied Stoic philosophy under Musonius Rufus,[10] Becoming more educated in this way raised his social status.[11] At some point, he became disabled. Around AD 93, when Emperor Domitian banished all philosophers from the city,[15] Epictetus moved to Nicopolis in Epirus, Greece, where he founded a school of philosophy.[16]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-568.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-568.txt