Lupē

The passion of grief or pain; the mistaken belief that one is currently suffering a real external evil.

Lupē (grief, sorrow, pain) is one of the four fundamental passions of the false kind. It arises from the erroneous conviction that present external adversities — such as poverty, illness, or exile — constitute genuine evils. For the Stoics, Lupē is curable through insight into the correct understanding of good and evil: external circumstances are adiaphora (indifferent) and cannot harm virtue.