# Anytus — Discourses character guide

> Anytus in Discourses by Epictetus.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0004-i-of-the-things-which-are-in-our-power-and-not-in-our-power

## Who they are

Accuser of Socrates, used as an example of injustice.

## In the story

### [On Constancy (Or Firmness)](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/discourses_se/chapters/xxix-on-constancy-or-firmness)

Referenced alongside Melitus as one of Socrates' accusers; Epictetus quotes Socrates saying they can kill but not hurt him.

### [Book II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/discourses_se/chapters/book-ii)

Referenced as one of Socrates' accusers in the context of Socrates' trial.

### [Of Tranquillity (Freedom from Perturbation)](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/discourses_se/chapters/ii-of-tranquillity-freedom-from-perturbation)

Mentioned as one of Socrates' accusers, who can kill but not harm Socrates.

### [How Magnanimity Is Consistent with Care](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/discourses_se/chapters/v-how-magnanimity-is-consistent-with-care)

Mentioned as Socrates' accuser in the trial, who admitted that daemons are sons of gods or compounded of gods and men.

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