Book · Meditations
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Author: Marcus Aurelius
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XXXVIII. "Rhetoric" (38): Rather "the gift of speech"; or perhaps
the "decree" of the reasoning faculty.
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.
V. "New Comedy...," etc. C. has here strayed from the Greek
rather widely. Translate: "and understand to what end the New
Comedy was adopted, which by small degrees degenerated into a
mere show of skill in mimicry." C. writes Comedia Vetus, Media,
Nova. XII. "Phocion" (13): When about to be put to death he
charged his son to bear no malice against the Athenians.
XXVIII. "My heart," etc. (31): From Homer, Odyssey ix. 413. "They
will" From Hesiod, Opera et Dies, 184.
"Epictetus" Arr. i. II, 37.
XXX. "Cut down grapes" (35): Correct "ears of corn."
"Epictetus"(36): Arr. 3, 22, 105.
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