Epictetus on Adultery and sex I need some clarification on Epictetus' teachings on adultery. On surface it seems like he completely condemns it, but I would like to know if there's some cultural assumptions he doesn't mention that give his text a deeper meaning than the surface level reading. 

Does Epictetus use the modern definition of "adultery" or did his definition differ from ours? Wasn't prostitution and adultery quite common among Romans? Wasn't sex with slaves quite common, and would this have counted as adultery? 