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Epictetus

Fragments Attributed to Epictetus Fragment 26

Fragment 27 of 31

Canonical reference 26

Ancient Greek

Heinrich Schenkl, Epicteti dissertationes ab Arriano digestae (1916)

ψυχάριον εἶ βαστάζον νεκρόν, ὡς Ἐπίκτητος ἔλεγεν.

W. A. Oldfather · W. A. Oldfather, Epictetus: The Discourses as Reported by Arrian, the Manual, and Fragments, volume II (1928)

You are a little soul, carrying around a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.

Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11

Tu es une petite âme qui porte çà et là un cadavre, comme Épictète avait coutume de le dire.