Seneca - Is He More Interested in Senecas Than in Epictetus?

Lipsius' view of stoicism has very much been shaped by his reading of seneca. He's always more happy to put a christian spin on whatever he can find than dig into the possible problems where there's going to ultimately be a flat contradiction between christianity and stoicism. Seneca is to key points of reference, and obviously cicero is there as well. So i think, yes, he had that natural preference for latin literature. We might say he certainly read epictetus, and he mentions epictetus a few times and quotes from him. But i am going to hazard a guess and say that he read epitetus relatively late in his intellectual