Meditations沉思录.pdf

Meditations Marcus Aurelius CONTENTS NOTES INTRODUCTION FIRST BOOK SECOND BOOK THIRD BOOK FOURTH BOOK 第 1 页 共 106 页 / 原版英语阅读网 FIFTH BOOK SIXTH BOOK SEVENTH BOOK EIGHTH BOOK NINTH BOOK TENTH BOOK ELEVENTH BOOK TWELFTH BOOK APPENDIX GLOSSARY NOTES This text was scanned by J. Boulton using Textbridge OCR. The Greek portions of the text have been added by hand and they will require the standard Symbol font symbol.ttf to be installed in the system fonts folder. This is a standard Windows font, so should be present on most systems. To contact the scanner e-mail: magicjon@ INTRODUCTION This is the Plain Text version, see medma10h.txt or .zop for the HTML version with the various symbols mentioned above.] Meditations Marcus Aurelius MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS was born on April 26, A.D. 121. His real name was M. Annius Verus, and he was sprung of a noble family which claimed descent from Numa, second King of Rome. Thus the most religious of emperors came of the blood of the most pious of early kings. His father, Annius Verus, had held high office in Rome, and his grandfather, of the same name, had been thrice Consul. Both his parents died young, but Marcus held them in loving remembrance. On his fathers death Marcus was adopted by his grandfather, the consular Annius Verus, and there was deep love between these two. On the very first page of his book Marcus gratefully declares how of his grandfather he had learned to be gentle and meek, and to refrain from all anger and passion. The Emperor Hadrian divined the fine character of the lad, whom he used to call not Verus but Verissimus, more Truthful than his own name. He advanced Marcus to equestrian rank when six years of age, and at the age of eight made him a member of the ancient Salian priesthood. The boys aunt, Annia Galeria Faustina, wa