Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
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Meditations
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- BOOK VII IX. C. translates his conjecture mh for h. The Greek means "straight, or rectified," with a play on the literal and metaphorical meaning of ortoz. ¶594
- XIV. endaimonia. contains the word daimwn in composition. XXII. The text is corrupt, but the words "or if it be but few" should be "that is little enough." ¶595
- XXIII. "Plato": Republic, vi. p. 486 A. ¶596
- XXV. "It will," etc. Euripides, Belerophon, frag. 287 (Nauck). ¶597
- "Lives," etc. Euripides, Hypsipyle, frag. 757 (Nauck). "As long," etc. Aristophanes, Acharne, 66 i. ¶598
- XXVI. "But, O noble sir," etc. Plato, Gorgias, 512 D. XXVII. "And as for those parts," etc. A quotation from Euripides, Chryssipus, frag. 839 (Nauck). ¶601
- "With meats," etc. From Euripides, Supplices, 1110. XXXIII. "They both," i.e. life and wrestling. ¶602
- "Says he" (63): Plato, quoted by Epictetus, Arr. i. 28, 2 and 22. ¶603
- XXXVII. "How know we," etc. The Greek means: "how know we whether Telauges were not nobler in character than Sophocles?" The allusion is unknown. ¶604
- XXVII. "Frost" The word is written by Casaubon as a proper name, "Pagus.' ¶605
- "The hardihood of Socrates was famous"; see Plato, Siymposium, p. 220. ¶606
- BOOK X XXII. The Greek means, "paltry breath bearing up corpses, so that the tale of Dead Man's Land is clearer." ¶607
- XXII. "The poet" (21): Euripides, frag. 898 (Nauck); compare Aeschylus, Danaides, frag. 44. ¶608
- XXIV. "Plato" (23): Theaetetus, p. 174 D. ¶609
- XXXIV. "The poet" (34): Homer, Iliad, vi. 147. ¶610
- XXXIV. "Wood": A translation of ulh, "matter." ¶611
- XXXVIII. "Rhetoric" (38): Rather "the gift of speech"; or perhaps the "decree" of the reasoning faculty. ¶612
- BOOK XI V. "Cithaeron" (6): Oedipus utters this cry after discovering 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. ¶613
- XXVIII. "My heart," etc. (31): From Homer, Odyssey ix. 413. "They will" From Hesiod, Opera et Dies, 184. ¶615
- XXX. "Cut down grapes" (35): Correct "ears of corn." "Epictetus"(36): Arr. 3, 22, 105. ¶617
- This Glossary includes all proper names (excepting a few which are insignificant or unknown) and all obsolete or obscure words. ADRIANUS, or Hadrian (76-138 A. D.), 14th Roman Emperor. ¶619
- Agrippa, M. Vipsanius (63-12 B.C.), a distinguished soldier under Augustus. ¶620
- Alexander the Great, King of Macedonia, and Conqueror of the East, 356-323 B.C. ¶621
- Antisthenes of Athens, founder of the sect of Cynic philosophers, and an opponent of Plato, 5th century B.C Antoninus Pius, 15th Roman Emperor, 138-161 AD. one of the best princes that ever mounted a throne. ¶622
- Apathia: the Stoic ideal was calmness in all circumstance an insensibility to pain, and absence of all exaltation at, pleasure or good fortune. ¶623
- Apelles, a famous painter of antiquity. ¶624
- Apollonius of Alexandria, called Dyscolus, or the 'ill-tempered,' a great grammarian. ¶625
- Aposteme, tumour, excrescence. ¶626
- Archimedes of Syracuse 287-212 B.C., the most famous mathematician of antiquity. ¶627
- Athos, a mountain promontory at the N. of the Aegean Sea. ¶628
- Augustus, first Roman Emperor (ruled 31 B.C.-14 AD.). ¶629
- BACCHIUS: there Were several persons of this name, and the one meant is perhaps the musician. ¶631
- Brutus (1) the liberator of the Roman people from their kings, and (2) the murderer of Caesar. ¶632
- Both names were household words. ¶633
- Caesar, Caius, Julius, the Dictator and Conqueror. ¶634
- Camillus, a famous dictator in the early days of the Roman Republic. ¶636
- Carnuntum, a town on the Danube in Upper Pannonia. ¶637
- Cato, called of Utica, a Stoic who died by his own hand after the battle of Thapsus, 46 B.C. His name was proverbial for virtue and courage. ¶638
- Cecrops, first legendary King of Athens. ¶640
- Charax, perhaps the priestly historian of that name, whose date is unknown, except that it must be later than Nero. ¶641
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