Epictetus with the crutch of his lameness, frontispiece to an Oxford edition of the Enchiridion in Latin verse. The Greek couplet below, from the Greek Anthology, reads: I was Epictetus, a slave, lame in body, poor as Irus, and dear to the immortals.William Sonmans, engraved by Michael Burghers, 1715 · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
