Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Pdf

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ΜΑΡΚΟΥ ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟΥ ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΟΣ
ΤΑ ΕΙΣ ΕΑΥΤΟΝ

THE MEDITATIONS OF THE
EMPEROR MARCUS ANTONINUS

MARCUS RECEIVES THE SUBMISSION OF GERMANS AND SARMATIANS

Console from the Emperor's Triumphal Curvation

ΜΑΡΚΟΥ ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟΥ ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΟΣ

ΤΑ ΕΙΣ ΕΑΥΤΟΝ

THE MEDITATIONS OF THE

EMPEROR MARCUS ANTONINUS

EDITED

WITH T RANSLATION AND C OMMENTARY

A. S. 50. FARQUHARSON

(1871–1942)

Boyfriend OF University COLLEGE

Volume I

T EXT AND T RANSLATION

OXFORD

AT THE CLARENDON PRESS

1944

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CONTENTS

PREFACE	5
INTRODUCTION	ix
TEXT and TRANSLATION	4
Volume I	5
Book Two	21
Book Iii	35
Book Four	51
Volume V	75
Book VI	97
Volume VII	121
Book VIII	147
Book IX	171
Book X	191
Book 11	215
Book XII	235
Chronology	253
Genealogical Table	255
Life	256
ENGLISH COMMENTARY	269
Book I	269
Book II	278
Volume III	297
Book Iv	307
Book V	325
Book Half dozen	339
Book Seven	351
Book VIII	365
Book IX	378
Book X	391
Book XI	405
Book XII	418

PREFACE

This edition of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius was the product of years of unremitting and well-nigh secret labour. Few even of his friends were immune to know how closely and continuously Farquharson lived with the subject of his studies. Just the evidence of his library—the hundreds of volumes bearing in their margins 'copious notes' and forests of cross-references, written in his delicate, fifty-fifty, paw and dating, some of them, from his undergraduate days—has revealed the range and the item of his inquisition into the form and affair of the Meditations, how early on he began it and how deeply it absorbed him.

Many drafts of passages of exegesis and annotation—discarded, resumed, contradistinct, discarded, and again adopted, and all in that same faultless script—attest the diffidence with which he undertook the work and get in difficult to trace the stages of its composition.

Records, even so, show that it was in March 1936 that he outset discussed with the Clarendon Press the plan of his book and that the Delegates accepted it in February 1938. In June 1939 the MS., excluding the Notes, was sent to the Printer. When Farquharson died in Baronial 1942 Volume I was printed off (save for the Introduction, which he had seen in proof), and of Volume 2 he had seen rather more than than half (pp. 433–717) in proof, and passed for press pp. 433–608. The balance of the Notes in Vol. II was in MS., perfectly ready for the press. How many alterations he might yet have made in this portion of the Notes it is incommunicable to say, for he was ever prepare to abandon or rewrite the fairest of fair copies if he thought improvement possible.

In a serial of messages which he wrote to me weekly from the outbreak of war in September 1939 Farquharson frequently referred to the progress he was making with the work. The 'mechanic practise', the awarding it demanded, and the precepts and spirit of the text (with which he was securely imbued, though I do not recollect that he was birthday a Stoic), plain helped him to become through difficult times with equanimity. Just his messages revealed also ii sources of anxiety: a sense that he had performed his job inadequately, and a gradually increasing fright that he would not alive to come across information technology finished. I tried to persuade him that his dissatisfaction with his work was due rather to a habit of self-depreciation, which indeed with him had become a second nature, than to a perception of actual shortcomings in it; and when he spoke of his death I could simply assure him that if the need arose I would meet his book through the press, as he had entreated me to practice.

That promise is now fulfilled, though circumstances have allowed me to perform myself merely a very niggling of the labour involved. Mr. David Rees, Postmaster of Merton Higher, sitting in Farquharson's study and working with his papers and his books with only slight collaboration on my function, attended, with infinite patience and the almost scrupulous care, to the passing for press of the first proofs of pp. 718–902 and the revises of pp. 609–902, and of the first proofs and revises of the Introduction. The Indexes are entirely his work.

The rule observed in carrying out our task was to exit unaltered everything except false references and slips which were patently due to an oversight. Disagreement with a comment or preference for another mode of expression, fifty-fifty if there seemed a valid reason for information technology, was never treated as justifying an alteration. Our aim has been to requite what Farquharson really meant to impress at the time when he completed his MS. The perfect clarity and cease of that MS. lightened a laborious, if fascinating, job.

What the book owed in its concluding stages to Mr. Rees volition be obviously from what is said to a higher place. I must besides brand acknowledgement, which Farquharson himself would take made more fittingly, to Mr. E. C. Marchant, Fellow of Lincoln College, to whose judgement he referred almost every part of his work from its earliest to its latest stages, and whose scholarship Mr. Rees and I take accepted in cases of doubt as a final arbiter. Our thank you are also due to the Delegates of the Clarendon Press for pushing on the publication of the book in spite of many competing state of war-time claims upon the Printing.

I cannot conclude this Preface without recording two debts which Farquharson himself would not, I call up, have passed over in silence—debts to two who were in unlike senses his companions throughout the work: 1, to his wife, whose pure taste and deep sympathy were for him unfailing resources; the other, to his forerunner Thomas Gataker, for whom he habitually expressed an admiration and a reverence 2nd merely to his adoration and reverence for 'the Emperor' himself.

JOHN SPARROW.

Oct. 1943.

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Original:

This work was published before January 1, 1927, and is in the public domain worldwide considering the author died at least 100 years ago.

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Translation:

This work is in the public domain in the Us because it was legally published within the United States (or the United Nations Headquarters in New York subject field to Section seven of the United States Headquarters Agreement) before 1964, and copyright was non renewed.

For Course A renewals records (books just) published between 1923 and 1963, bank check the Stanford University Copyright Renewal Database.
For other renewal records of publications between 1922–1950 meet the University of Pennsylvania copyright records scans.
For all records since 1978, search the U.S. Copyright Office records.

Works published in 1944 would have had to renew their copyright in either 1971 or 1972, i.eastward. at least 27 years after it was offset published / registered but not afterward than in the 28th yr. Equally information technology was not renewed, it entered the public domain on 1 January 1973.

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