Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
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Marcus Aurelius · 7 chapters
Quotes from this book
On his father's death Marcus was adopted by his grandfather, the consular Annius Verus, and there was deep love between these two.
The Emperor Hadrian divined the fine character of the lad, whom he used to call not Verus but Verissimus, more Truthful than his own name.
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- PrefaceSample
- BOOK II "Both to frequent" (4). Gr. τὸ μή, C. conjectures τὸ μὲ. The
- BOOK IV XV. "Agathos" (18): This is probably not a proper name, but the
- BOOK V XIV. katorqwseiz (15): Acts of "rightness" or "straightness."
- BOOK VII IX. C. translates his conjecture mh for h. The Greek means
- BOOK X XXII. The Greek means, "paltry breath bearing up corpses, so that
- BOOK XI V. "Cithaeron" (6): Oedipus utters this cry after discovering