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Author: Marcus Aurelius

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XVII. "Wonder at them" (18): i.e. mankind.
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.
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."
XLII. There is no hiatus in the Greek.
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.
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."
XXIII. "Plato": Republic, vi. p. 486 A.
XXV. "It will," etc. Euripides, Belerophon, frag. 287 (Nauck).
"Lives," etc. Euripides, Hypsipyle, frag. 757 (Nauck). "As long,"
etc. Aristophanes, Acharne, 66 i.
"Plato" Apology, p. 28 B.

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