Meditations — Marcus Aurelius

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius · Άδεια: Public domain · Πηγή

• 2 The writer sometimes uses archaisms such as quom, which I render 'whenas'. ¶508
• 4 The writer parodies the proclamation at the Greek games; the words also are Greek. ¶510
• 5 From internal evidence: the letters are not arranged in order of time. See Naher's Prolegomena, p. xx. foil. ¶511
• 7 Ad M. Caes ii. 10,; iii. 18,; ii. 4. ¶513
• When he wishes to compliment Marcus he declares one or other of his letters has the true Tullian ring. Marcus gives his nights to reading when he ought to be sleeping. He exercises himself in verse composition and on rhetorical themes. ¶514
• 2 He implies, as in i. 6, that he has ceased to study Horace. ¶518
• 3 Pollio was a grammarian, who taught Marcus. ¶519
• A pretty bold idea, is it not, and rash judgment, to pass censure on a man of such reputation? But whenas I remember that I am writing to you, I think I am less bold than you would have me. ¶524
• 'In that point I am wholly undecided. ¶525
• 'There's an unpremeditated hendecasyllable for you. So before I begin to poetize, i'll take an easy with you. Farewell, my heart's desire, your Verus's best beloved, most distinguisht consul, master most sweet. Farewell I ever pray, sweetest soul. ¶526
• What a letter do you think you have written me I could make bold to say, that never did she who bore me and nurst me, write anything SO delightful, so honey-sweet. And this does not come of your fine style and eloquence: otherwise not my mother only, but all who breathe.' ¶527
• To the pupil, never was anything on earth so fine as his master's eloquence; on this theme Marcus fairly bubbles over with enthusiasm. ¶529
• 2 The Emperor Antoninus Pius is spoken of as dominus vieus. ¶533
• 3 This sentence is written in Greek. ¶534
• 4 Several of these words are Greek, and the meaning is not quite clear. ¶535
• Keep away envy from your suite, and you will find your friends kindly and harmonious.' ¶537
• One anecdote puts Marcus before us in a new light:(3) ¶543
• Another letter(1) describes a visit to a country town, and shows the antiquarian spirit of the writer 'M. CAESAR to his MASTER M. FRONTO, greeting. ¶548
• 1 Ad Verum. Imp ii. 1, s. fin. ¶550
• 1 Ad Verum. imp., ii. I, s.fin. ¶554
• 2 A common mark of the effeminate at Rome. ¶555
• After the preceptorial letters cease the others are concerned with domestic events, health and sickness, visits or introductions, birth or death. Thus the empperor writes to his old friend, who had shown some diffidence in seeking an interview:(1) ¶556
• 1 Ad Verum. Imp. Aur. Caes., i. 3. ¶559
• 1 In the war against the Catti. ¶569
• Numbers in brackets refer to the Teubner text of Stich, but the divisions of the text are left unaltered. For some of the references identified I am indebted to Mr. G. H. Rendall's Marcus Aurelius. ¶575
• BOOK II "Both to frequent" (4). Gr. to mh, C. conjectures to me. The text is probably right: "I did not frequent public lectures, and I was taught at home." ¶576
• VI Idiots.... philosophers (9). The reading is doubtful, but the meaning seems to be: "simple and unlearned men" ¶577
• XII "Claudius Maximus" (15). The reading of the Palatine MS. (now lost) was paraklhsiz Maximon, which C. supposes to conceal the letters kl as an abbreviation of Claudius. ¶578
• XIII "Congiaries" (13). dianomais, "doles." ¶580
• X. "honour and credit do proceed" (12). The verb has dropt out of the text, but C. has supplied one of the required meaning. ¶582
• XI. "Consider," etc. (52). This verb is not in the Greek, which means: "(And reason also shows) how man, etc." ¶583
• BOOK IV XV. "Agathos" (18): This is probably not a proper name, but the text seems to be unsound. The meaning may be "the good man ought" ¶584
• XVI. oikonomian (16) is a "practical benefit," a secondary end. XXXIX. "For herein lieth all...." (~3). C. translates his conjecture olan for ola. ¶585
• BOOK V XIV. katorqwseiz (15): Acts of "rightness" or "straightness." XXIII. "Roarer" (28): Gr. "tragedian." Ed. 1 has whoremonger,' ed. 2 corrects to "harlot," but omits to alter' the word at its second occurrence. ¶586
• XXV. "Thou hast... them" (33): A quotation from Homer, Odyssey, iv. 690. ¶587
• XXVII. "One of the poets" (33): Hesiod, Op. et Dies, 197. ¶588
• XVII. "Wonder at them" (18): i.e. mankind. ¶590
• XXXVII. "Chrysippus" (42): C. refers to a passage of Plutarch De Communibus Notitiis (c. xiv.), where Chrysippus is represented as saying that a coarse phrase may be vile in itself, yet have due place in a comedy as contributing to a certain effect. ¶591
• XL. "Man or men..." There is no hiatus in the Greek, which means: "Whatever (is beneficial) for a man is so for other men also." ¶592
• XLII. There is no hiatus in the Greek. ¶593

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