Corpus boundary — Epictetus v1

Fixed before any extraction (GENERATE_PKB_v2 step 1).

Included

  • The Encheiridion (Manual) — PROOF WORK, whole text assembled
    (sources/encheiridion_long_pg10661.txt: chapters I–LII, George Long
    translation, Gutenberg #10661). This is the entire evidence pool for v1.
    The Manual is a compact, complete digest of Epictetus' teaching, compiled by
    his pupil Arrian from the Discourses — a naturally bounded corpus.

Included separately, marked

  • The two closing quotations of ch. LII are not Epictetus' own prose: the
    Cleanthes hymn ("Lead me, O Zeus, and thou O Destiny…") is verse by Cleanthes
    that Epictetus quotes, and the Socrates line ("Anytus and Melitus are able
    indeed to kill me, but they cannot harm me") is attributed to Socrates. Where
    used, they are marked as quoted material, never as Epictetus speaking in his
    own voice.

Excluded

  • The Discourses (Diatribai) as primary evidence — Long's selection is
    present in sources/…full.txt for reference, but v1's verbatim gate runs
    against the Encheiridion only. Widening to the Discourses is a v2 decision and
    needs its own boundary note (the Discourses are Arrian's transcript of spoken
    lectures, a different textual status from the Manual).
  • The Fragments and later Stoic florilegia.
  • Marcus Aurelius / Seneca / Musonius Rufus — other Stoics, not Epictetus.
  • Modern translations (Oldfather Loeb, Hard, Dobbin, White) — not PD.
  • Internet "Stoic quote" collections and motivational cards without an edition
    trace — the Epictetus meme field is dense (see QUOTE_AUTHENTICITY.md).

Reason

The Manual is the stable, self-contained primary source and the form in which
Epictetus is most quoted; keeping the evidence pool to one complete work with
one translator means every blockquote is mechanically checkable and the meme
field stays outside the fence.