relating to the time of Marcus Aurelius. Pater's "Marius the Epicurean"
forms another outside commentary, which is of service in the imaginative
attempt to create again the period.

MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS THE ROMAN EMPEROR

HIS FIRST BOOK

concerning HIMSELF:

Wherein Antoninus recordeth, What and of whom, whether Parents, Friends,
or Masters; by their good examples, or good advice and counsel,
he had learned:

Divided into Numbers or Sections.

ANTONINUS Book vi. Num. xlviii. Whensoever thou wilt rejoice thyself,
think and meditate upon those good parts and especial gifts, which thou
hast observed in any of them that live with thee:

as industry in one, in another modesty, in another bountifulness,
in another some other thing. For nothing can so much rejoice thee,
as the resemblances and parallels of several virtues, eminent in
the dispositions of them that live with thee, especially when
all at once, as it were, they represent themselves unto thee.
See therefore, that thou have them always in a readiness

THE FIRST BOOK

I. Of my grandfather Verus I have learned to be gentle