These Fragments are entitled “ Epicteti Fragmenta maxime ex Ioanne Stobaeo, Antonio, et Maximo collecta ” ( ed. Schweig. ). There are some notes and emendations on the Fragments; and a short dissertation on them by Schweighaeuser.
Nothing is known of Stobaeus nor of his time, except the fact that he has preserved some extracts of an ethical kind from the New Platonist Hierocles, who lived about the middle of the fifth century AD ; and it is therefore concluded that Stobaeus lived after Hierocles. The fragments attributed to Epictetus are preserved by Stobaeus in his work entitled Ἁνφολόγιον , or Florilegium or Sermones .