240703 What I learned in my studies this morning 4**

Today's Meditation(s):

Discourses, 3.23.30 (Waterfield)

I wonder why Epictetus uses physical maladies after this excerpt — dislocated shoulder, abscess, headache, tumor. It seems it would be easy to use psychological or spiritual ills — malaise, anger, lust, prestige-seeking — to demonstrate what cases philosophy can help.

I'll need to think on this more before I figure it out.