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grbs-6361	Castner, Catherine J.	Epicurean Hetairai As Dedicants to Healing Divinities?	1982	7	.pdf	application/pdf	2959	157	60	In addition, to judge from the extant fragments, Epicurus was fond of the comparison of spiritual trouble to physical sickness, and of philosophy to medicine.14 Several fragments testify to the sever­ ity of Epicurus' final illness; nowhere do we find approving or critical mention of healing cults, although during an illness he is said to have discussed philosophy and declined to entrust himself to the customary insolence of physicians (259). The frequency and in­ tensity of his own illnesses do not seem to have led Epicurus to con­ done healing cults or even the 'scientific' medicine of the physicians.	cache/grbs-6361.pdf	txt/grbs-6361.txt