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Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

Chapter 11 of 12 • 367 min read • Published 180

Chapter 11. 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" XVI. oikonomian (16) is a "practical benefit," a secondary end.

"For herein lieth all...." (~3). C. translates his conjecture olan for ola. "Roarer" (28): Gr.

Ed. 1 has whoremonger,' ed. 2 corrects to "harlot," but omits to alter' the word at its second occurrence.

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"Thou hast... them" (33): A quotation from Homer, Odyssey, iv. 690. "One of the poets" (33): Hesiod, Op. et Dies, 197.

XXIX and XXX. (36). The Greek appears to contain quotations from sources not known, and the translation is a paraphrase. (One or two alterations are here made on the authority of the second edition.) BOOK VI XIII.

"Affected and qualified" (i4): exis, the power of cohesion shown in things inanimate; fusiz, power of growth seen in plants and the like.

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"Wonder at them" (18): i.e. mankind. "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.

"Man or men..." There is no hiatus in the Greek, which means: "Whatever (is beneficial) for a man is so for other men also."

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