An 18^th century drawing of Epictetus with an inscription, an elegiac couplet from the Greek Anthology, Book VII, epigram 676.  This is printed opposite the title page of John Adams’ copy of the Enchiridion published in London in 1715 which is now in the Boston Public Library.

               Δοῦλος Επίκτητος γενόμην καὶ σῶμ’ανάπηρος

                        καὶ πενίην Ἶρος καὶ φίλος ἀθανάτοις.

A slave, I was Epictetus, crippled in body and poor as Irus and I

was a friend of the gods.

(Irus is the beggar in Odyssey XVIII)