V. From my governor, to be neither of the green nor of the blue party at the games in the Circus, nor a partisan either of the Parmularius or the Scutarius at the gladiators' fights; from him too I learned endurance of labor, and to want little, and to work with my own hands, and not to meddle with other people's affairs, and not to be ready to listen to slander.
His paedagogus — the household slave or freedman who walked a boy to his lessons and answered for his conduct. Marcus never gives his name, here or anywhere else.
Where they were from
Where they were fromHis governor is not named, and no place is recorded.
When, in his life
Where it comes from
The Greens and Blues were chariot factions, and faction was how ordinary Romans did politics — it could and did turn into riot. Refusing to belong to either is not indifference; it is a position.