Epictetus on the Little Soul Carrying a Corpse

Notes

1. §4.41.1Ψυχάριον εἶ βαστάζον νεκρόν — Since ψυχάριον is a neuter noun, the modifying participle βαστάζον (present participle of βαστάζω, 'to carry') is also in the neuter nominative singular. Although the phrase refers to a human being ('you', the implied subject of the second-person singular εἶ), grammatical agreement with the neuter noun is strictly maintained.