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Meditations · BOOK V XIV. katorqwseiz (15): Acts of "rightness" or "straightness."

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XXIII. "Roarer" (28): Gr. "tragedian." Ed. 1 has whoremonger,' ed. 2 corrects to "harlot," but omits to alter' the word at its second occurrence. XXV. "Thou hast... them" (33): A quotation from Homer, Odyssey, iv. 690. XXVII. "One of the poets" (33): Hesiod, Op. et Dies, 197. XXIX and XXX. (36). The Greek appears to contain quotations from sources not known, and the translation is a paraphrase. (One or two alterations are here made on the authority of the second edition.) BOOK VI XIII. "Affected and qualified" (i4): exis, the power of cohesion shown in things inanimate; fusiz, power of growth seen in plants and the like. XVII. "Wonder at them" (18): i.e. mankind. XXXVII. "Chrysippus" (42): C. refers to a passage of Plutarch De Communibus Notitiis (c. xiv.), where Chrysippus is represented as saying that a coarse phrase may be vile in itself, yet have due place in a comedy as contributing to a certain effect. XL. "Man or men..." There is no hiatus in the Greek, which means: "Whatever (is beneficial) for a man is so for other men also." XLII. There is no hiatus in the Greek.