NOTES

42. +Transliteration: para tes metros to theosebes. Translation:
"rites deriving from [his] mother."

47. +Transliteration: koinos auto pros tous theous. Translation:
"common to him together with the gods."

49. +Transliteration: Tou aristou apolaue. Translation: "[Always]
take the best."

52. +Not indented in the original.



CHAPTER XIX: THE WILL AS VISION

Paratum cor meum deus! paratum cor meum!

[57] THE emperor demanded a senatorial decree for the erection of
images in memory of the dead prince; that a golden one should be
carried, together with the other images, in the great procession of
the Circus, and the addition of the child's name to the Hymn of the
Salian Priests: and so, stifling private grief, without further delay
set forth for the war.

True kingship, as Plato, the old master of Aurelius, had understood
it, was essentially of the nature of a service. If so be, you can
discover a mode of life more desirable than the being a king, for