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Meditations (The Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus)

Marcus Aurelius · translated by George Long (1862)

The private notes of a Roman emperor on Stoic philosophy and living well.

Contents

  1. Book I17 sections
  2. Book II17 sections
  3. Book III16 sections
  4. Book IV51 sections
  5. Book V36 sections
  6. Book VI59 sections
  7. Book VII75 sections
  8. Book VIII61 sections
  9. Book IX42 sections
  10. Book X38 sections
  11. Book XI39 sections
  12. Book XII36 sections

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The Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, translated by George Long (first published 1862); PG #15877 transcription of a later printing (printing not identified in the file)

Translation published 1862; translator George Long died 1879. Public domain worldwide (life+70) and in the US (published before 1929).

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15877 Text taken from Project Gutenberg with the PG header, footer and licence removed, as PG's terms allow for public-domain works. Normalisation: italic underscores removed: 16; indented paragraph after footnote treated as footnote: 'Antoninus says, [Greek: tois Epiktêteiois hypomnêmasin] whic'; indented paragraph after footnote treated as footnote: 'If these words are genuine, Antoninus may have written this'; indented paragraph after footnote treated as footnote: '"Si quaeras Helicen et Burin Achaidas urbes,'; indented quotation kept with line breaks in V.31; indented quotation kept with line breaks in V.33; indented paragraph after footnote treated as footnote: '"Reddenda terrae est terra: tum vita omnibus'; indented paragraph after footnote treated as footnote: 'If there is no error in the passage, it is worth the labor t'; indented paragraph after footnote treated as footnote: '"For there in sooth man\'s life is easiest:'; indented paragraph after footnote treated as footnote: 'It is certain that the writer of the Odyssey only follows so'; indented paragraph after footnote treated as footnote: 'It was the fashion of the Stoics to work on the meanings of'; indented quotation kept with line breaks in X.34; indented quotation kept with line breaks in XI.6; indented paragraph after footnote treated as footnote: 'The wolfish friendship is an allusion to the fable of the sh'; indented paragraph after footnote treated as footnote: '[Greek: Sphairos kykloterês moniê perigêthei gaiôn.]'; indented paragraph after footnote treated as footnote: 'Gataker, whose notes are a wonderful collection of learning,'; footnote markers [A]-[Z] removed: 130; footnote paragraphs dropped: 135; Long's bracketed supplied words and PG '[Greek: ...]' transliterations kept as printed; Biographical sketch, Philosophy essay and indexes excluded.

Changes made in transcription (19)
  • italic underscores removed: 16
  • indented paragraph after footnote treated as footnote: 'Antoninus says, [Greek: tois Epiktêteiois hypomnêmasin] whic'
  • indented paragraph after footnote treated as footnote: 'If these words are genuine, Antoninus may have written this'
  • indented paragraph after footnote treated as footnote: '"Si quaeras Helicen et Burin Achaidas urbes,'
  • indented quotation kept with line breaks in V.31
  • indented quotation kept with line breaks in V.33
  • indented paragraph after footnote treated as footnote: '"Reddenda terrae est terra: tum vita omnibus'
  • indented paragraph after footnote treated as footnote: 'If there is no error in the passage, it is worth the labor t'
  • indented paragraph after footnote treated as footnote: '"For there in sooth man\'s life is easiest:'
  • indented paragraph after footnote treated as footnote: 'It is certain that the writer of the Odyssey only follows so'
  • indented paragraph after footnote treated as footnote: 'It was the fashion of the Stoics to work on the meanings of'
  • indented quotation kept with line breaks in X.34
  • indented quotation kept with line breaks in XI.6
  • indented paragraph after footnote treated as footnote: 'The wolfish friendship is an allusion to the fable of the sh'
  • indented paragraph after footnote treated as footnote: '[Greek: Sphairos kykloterês moniê perigêthei gaiôn.]'
  • indented paragraph after footnote treated as footnote: 'Gataker, whose notes are a wonderful collection of learning,'
  • footnote markers [A]-[Z] removed: 130; footnote paragraphs dropped: 135
  • Long's bracketed supplied words and PG '[Greek: ...]' transliterations kept as printed
  • Biographical sketch, Philosophy essay and indexes excluded

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