Twelve books of notes the emperor wrote to himself on campaign, in Greek, with no sign that he meant anyone else to read them. Book One is a list of debts to particular people; the eleven that follow are arguments he is having with himself.
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No other book on this shelf shares a run of seven words with The Meditations that is not a formula. On the evidence of the wording, nothing here quotes it and it quotes nothing here. That is not proof of isolation — this measure cannot cross a translation, so it finds nothing between Virgil and Homer either — but there is no quotation to show.
Of the sixty counted across the shelf, the ones this book names most. A name is counted wherever it is written, whoever is speaking. Each one has a page of its own listing every chapter, in every book, that carries it.
Translator: George Long, 1862. Source: Gutenberg 15877.
The text here is George Long’s translation, 1862, public domain, from Project Gutenberg ebook 15877, set unaltered. Long’s own footnotes are his and are not printed; his bracketed additions are kept, because the Greek omits the verb and the English needs it.
The sections are numbered as Long numbers them. Where he supplies a word the Greek leaves out, it stands in [brackets], as he printed it.
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