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XIV "Cajeta" (17). The passage is certainly corrupt. C. spies a

reference to Chryses praying by the sea-shore in the Illiad, and

supposes M. Aurelius to have done the like. None of the

emendations suggested is satisfactory. At § XV. Book II. is

usually reckoned to begin. BOOK II III. "Do, soul" (6). If the

received reading be right, it must be sarcastic; but there are

several variants which show how unsatisfactory it is. C.

translates "en gar o bioz ekasty so par eanty", which I do not

understand. The sense required is: "Do not violence to thyself,

for thou hast not long to use self-respect. Life is not (v. 1. so

long for each, and this life for thee is all but done."

X. "honour and credit do proceed" (12). The verb has dropt out of

the text, but C. has supplied one of the required meaning.

XI. "Consider," etc. (52). This verb is not in the Greek, which

means: "(And reason also shows) how man, etc."