Meditations
By Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome
Classic work by Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome.
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propitiate the gods; and these rites were often trivial, sometimes violated right feeling or even morality. Even when the gods stood on the side of righteousness, they were concern...
text is probably right: "I did not frequent public lectures, and I was taught at home." VI Idiots.... philosophers (9). The reading is doubtful, but the meaning seems to be: "simp...
text seems to be unsound. The meaning may be "the good man ought" XVI. oikonomian (16) is a "practical benefit," a secondary end. XXXIX. "For herein lieth all...." (~3). C. transl...
XXIII. "Roarer" (28): Gr. "tragedian." Ed. 1 has whoremonger,' ed. 2 corrects to "harlot," but omits to alter' the word at its second occurrence. XXV. "Thou hast... them" (33): A ...
"straight, or rectified," with a play on the literal and metaphorical meaning of ortoz. XIV. endaimonia. contains the word daimwn in composition. XXII. The text is corrupt, but th...
the tale of Dead Man's Land is clearer." XXII. "The poet" (21): Euripides, frag. 898 (Nauck); compare Aeschylus, Danaides, frag. 44. XXIV. "Plato" (23): Theaetetus, p. 174 D. XX...
that he has fulfilled his awful doom, he was exposed on Cithaeron as an infant to die, and the cry implies that he wishes he had died there. Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 1391. V. ...