Marcus Aurelius (Haines 1916)/Index of Matters

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INDEXES

I.—INDEX OF MATTERS

References are to Book and Section of the "Thoughts," and to pages in the rest of the book.

  • Acuteness (δριμύτης), v. 5; vi. 47
  • Aim, or objective, or goal in life (σκοπός q.v.), ii. 16; VIII. 1, 17; x. 37; xii. 20, 24
  • Aimlessness, ii. 5, 7, 16, 17; iii. 4, 2; iv. 2
  • Ampitheatre, and games, i. 5; vi. 46; x. 8; xiii. 9
  • Analysis of things, essential, iii. 11; vi. 3; vii. 29; viii. 11; xi. 2; xii. 10, 18
  • Anger, i. 9, 3; ii. 1, 10, 16; at what happens, vii. 38; viii. 17; xi. 18, 3, 8, 10
  • Apathy (ἀπάθεια) of Stoics, xi. 18, 10; ἀταραξία
  • Architect, vi. 35
  • Arethas, a Cappadocian bishop about 900 a.d.; quotes Marcus, on Lucian, Pisc. 26. (=vi. 47 Μένιππος); De Salt. 63, Δημήτριον τὸν Κυνικόν ( = viii. 25 Δημήτριος ὁ Πλατωνικός); Pro Imagg. 1 (viii. 37, Πάνθεια); on Dio Chrysostom, Orat. xx. 8 ( = IV. 3 εἰς ἑαυτὸν ἀναχωρεῖν ); Orat. xxxii. 15 (=ii. 3 πάντα ἐκεῖθεν ῥεῖ)
  • Aristides, 373, quoted on flyleaf, etc.
  • Art, xi. 10; cherish thine own, iv. 31; love of, v 1, § 2; object of, vi. 16; lower than Nature, xi. 10
  • Astonishment at what happens is ridiculous, viii. 15; xii. 1, 2, 13
  • Astrologers (Chaldaeans), iii. 3; iv. 48
  • Attraction or affinity (συμπάθεια), iv. 27; v. 26; ix. 9,§ 3
  • Atoms or God. iv. 3, §2-; vii. 31, 50: viii. 17; ix. 28, 39; x. 6; xi. 18, § 1
  • Avarice, 373
  • Avoidance not aversion, vi. 20
  • Axioms, principles, postulates, maxims (δόγματα), iv. 16; vii. 2; viii. 1, 14; ix. 29; holy, x. 9, 34
  • Barbarian auxiliaries. 371
  • Bassaeus Rufus, 'praef. praet.', 367
  • Bathing, i. 16, 7; viii. 24
  • "Bear and Forbear" (ἀνέχου ἀπέχου), v. 33; cp. iv. 3, 2 (for bearance a part of justice); viii. 59
  • Beautiful, the, ii. 1
  • Beauty in natural things, ii. 1; in youth, iii. 2, § 2
  • Benetianus, see Venetianus
  • Black character, a, iv. 18, 28
  • Blessings, thankfulness for, vii. 27
  • Boar, wild, iii. 2, § 1; x. 10
  • Body, vessel or sheath of soul, iii. 3, 2; iv. 41; ix. 3; x. 38; xii. 1, 2, 3; the inferior partner, xi. 19
  • Bodies of dead, how room for, iv 21
  • Bodily desires, vii. 55, 2, etc.
  • Books, ii. 2, 3; reading or writing of, i. 7; iii. 14; viii. 8; xi. 29
  • Bread, simile from, iii. 2, § 1
  • Breath (see πνεῦμα, πνευμάτιον), ii. 2 viii. 25, 56; xi. 3; xii. 20
  • Breathing through the arteries (διαπνεῖσθαι), an ancient medical notion, iii. 1; vi. 16

  • Brigandage, x. 10; xi. 18, § 7
  • Burials in bodies of animals, iv. 21 § 2
  • Cassius, Avidius, 348 ff., 371
  • "Caesarification," vi. 30
  • Cause (αἰτία, αἴτιον, τὸ αἰτιῶδες), the Final, Formal, or Efficient, v. 8; vii. 10; ix. 25, 37; in man, viii. 7; ix. 31; x. 26; in God or Nature, ix. 1, 29
  • Causal and material, iv. 21, § 3; v. 13; vii. 29; viii. 11; ix. 25, 37; xii. 10, 18, 29
  • Causation, xii. 8
  • Chance, i. 17 ad. fin.; ii. 3, 17; iii. 11; ix. 28; xii. 14, 24
  • Change, ii. 7; iv. 3, 36; vi. 36; vii. 18, 23, 25; viii. 6; ix. 19, 28; x. 7, 1, 11, 18; xii. 21; cycles of, v. 13; x. 7, 2; xi. 1, 2; of mind, iv. 12; viii. 10, 16
  • Chaos (see Medley), iv. 27; vi. 10; ix. 39; xii. 14
  • Character, the perfect, vii. 69; portrayed, i. 16; vi. 30,§ 2; cp. i. 15
  • Charity (see Love of neighbour), ii. 13; vi. 47; ix. 42; x. 36, § 2; xi. 1
  • Cheerfulness, i. 15, 16, § 2; iii. 5; x. 12
  • Children, vii. 41*; viii. 49; ix. 40; x. 34, 35; xi. 34*; loss of, i. 8 note; illness of, viii. 49; safety of, x. 35; Marcus own, i. 17, § 4; his fondness for, i. 13
  • Christians, i. 6; ii. 16; vii. 68; vii. 48, 51, § 2; xi. 3 (here only mentioned and this probably a gloss). See pp. 381 ff.
  • Circus, i. 5; x. 38
  • Cities destroyed by natural disasters, iv. 48; pp. 373, 387
  • Coarseness (ut Stoicus, nulla habet tacenda), v. 12, 28; vi. 13; viii. 21 (M8); x. 19
  • Colloquialism, in the mason's trade, v. 8, § 1; a "visitation from Heaven," v. 8, § 1; loves = is wont, x. 21; use of ῥόμβος ii. 17
  • Commodus, 354 ff.
  • Concilium of Emperor, 362
  • Concubine (of Verus or Hadrian), i. 17, § 2; of Lucius Verus, viii. 37
  • Conditional action, iv. 1; v. 20; vi. 50
  • Congiaria, i. 16, 7, pp. 365, 375
  • Contentment, iii. 4, 4, 12; iv. 25; v. 8, § 2, 27; vii. 54, 57; viii. 46; x. 1,6, § 2, 11, 28; xi. 13, 20, § 2; xii. 1, 3
  • Cosmopolitanism, a Stoic doctrine, see World-city
  • Country retreats, iv. 3; x. 1; xii. 27
  • Court etiquette, i. 16, § 2
  • Court life, i. 17, § 2; iv. 3; v. 16; vi. 12; viii. 9
  • Craze or hobby, v. 1; xii. 27
  • Customs officer, i. 17, § 8
  • Cycles, see Regeneration
  • Daemon (see δαίμων, and Genius.)
  • Dancing, v. 1; vii. 61; xi. 1, 2
  • Death, ii. 2, 17; iii. 3, 7; iv. 5, 6, 32, 48, 50; c. 33; vi. 2, 28, 46; vii. 32; viii. 25, 31, 58; ix. 21; x. 11, 29; no evil, xi. 23; to be despised, xii. 31, 35; a process of Nature, ii. 12; ix. 3; x. 36, 2; our death desired, x. 36; the leveller, vi. 24; a λύσις τῶν στοιχείων, ii. 17
  • Dead, generations of the, vi. 47
  • Dependence of things on one another, v. 16, 30
  • Destiny, iii. 6, 8, 11, § 3; iv. 26, 34; v. 8, 24; xii. 14
  • Dialectics, 1. 17, § 8; vii. 67; viii. 13
  • Dio Chrysostom, see Arethas; Dio Cassius, see notes i. 5, 6, 7; iii. 12; iv. 26; vii. 7; ix. 42, § 2; x. 6; xi. 21
  • Discontent, murmuring, rebellion against our lot, ii. 2, 3, 13, 16; iv. 3, 32; vi. 49; vii. 64; ix. 37; x. 3; xi. 20
  • Dispersion, vi. 4, 10; vii. 32, 50; viii. 25; ix. 39; x. 7, § 2; xi. 3
  • Dissolution, ii. 17 ad. fin.; iv. 21; vii. 50; ix. 32; x. 7; xi. 20; xii. 36
  • Divine, the, in man, see God
  • Doctors, iii. 3, 13; iv. 48; vi. 35, 55; viii. 15; Aesculapius as prescriber, v. 8
  • Dotage, iii. 1
  • Drama, the, iii. 8; vii. 3; ix. 24; x. 27; xi. 1, 6; xii. 36
  • Dreams, i. 17, 8; ix. 27
  • Duty, iii. 1. 16 (of the Christians); vi. 2, 22, 26, 30
  • Earth, smallness of, iii. 10; iv. 3, § 3; viii. 21; xii. 32
  • "Economy" (οἰκονομία, q.v.), iv. 19, 51; xi. 18, § 5
  • Elements the, iv. 4, 46; vii. 31; ix. 9; x. 7, §§ 2, 3
  • Emerald, iv. 20; vii. 15
  • Emperor, a private person, i. 17, §3; fire carried before him, i. 17, 3, p. 367
  • Enfranchisement of slaves, 360, 363
  • Evil, not recognized as such, ii. 1, 13; inevitable, iv. 6; v. 17; and God, ii. 11; What is evil to a man, ii. 11; falls on all alike, ii. 11; not interminable, ix. 35; surprise at, ix. 42, § 4, etc.
  • Evolution, iv. 45; ix. 28
  • Excerpts from books, iii. 14
  • Exorcism, i. 6
  • External things, cannot harm us, ii. 11; iv. 3 ad. fin., 8, 39, 49; vii. 64: viii. 1 ad. fin., 51; ix. 31; to be despised, vi. 16, 3
  • Extinction of soul, v. 33; vii. 32; viii. 25; ix. 3; xii. 5
  • Failure, vi. 11; x. 12; not to be taken to heart, v. 9
  • Faith, v. 33, pp. 349, 351
  • Falernian wine, vi. 13
  • Fame, ii. 17; iii. 10; iv. 3, § 3, 19, 33; v. 33; vi. 16, § 2, 18; vii. 6, 34; viii. 1, 21, 37, 44; ix. 30, etc.; cp. 356
  • Fate, see Destiny
  • Fellowship of men (κοινωνία, etc.), ii. 1; iii. 4, § 3, 11; iv. 4, 33; v. 16; vi. 7, 14, 23, 39; vii. 5, 13, 55, § 1; viii. 12, 26, 59; ix. 1, 23, 31, 42, 5; x. 36; xii. 20. See also Love of neighbour
  • Figs, iii 2; iv 6; vi. 14; vii. 15; x. 8; xii. 16; not to be looked for in winter, xi. 33
  • Fine writing, i. 7; iii. 5
  • Fire, iv. 1; viii. 41; ix. 9; x. 31, 33
  • Flesh, the, ii. 2; v. 26; vi. 28; vii. 66; viii. 56; ix. 41*; x. 8, 24; xii. 14
  • Flux of things (see also under Heraclitus), ii. 17; iv. 3 ad. fin. 36; v. 10, § 2; vi. 15; vii. 19
  • Forbearance, iv. 3, § 2; v. 33
  • Fortune, ii. 3; good, iv. 49,§ 2; v. 36, 2
  • Friends, i. 17, § 1; favours from, i. 8; consideration for, i. 9; love of, i. 14; virtues of, vi. 48; candid, i. 13; help of, 362, 363
  • Fronto, see notes, i. 7, 8, 11, 16, § 2, §§ 6,7,8; iii. 14, 2; v. 1, 5, 6, § 1; vi. 39, 46; vii. 22; viii. 30, 48
  • Galen, 360
  • Games, see Spectacles
  • Gardeners, saying of, xi. 8
  • Generation and growth, x. 26
  • Genius (δαίμων), divine in man, ii. 10, 13, 17; iii. 3, 2; 6, 7, 12, 16, § 2; v. 27; viii. 45; x. 13
  • Getting up in the morning, ii. 1; v. 1; viii. 12
  • Gladiators, i. 5; xii. 9
  • Glory, see Fame
  • Goal in life, see Aim
  • God or Gods, i. 17, §§ 1, 5; ii. 4, 5; existence of, ii. 11; xii. 28; priest of, iii. 4, § 3; and Chance, iii. 11, 2; and Atoms, viii. 17; ix. 28, 39; follow God, iii. 9, 16, § 2; x. 11; xii. 27, 31; do they take thought for man? vi. 44; ix. 40; One, vii. 9; art of, vii 68; in Nature, ix. 1; immanent in all things, vii. 9; viii. 54; in us, ii. 1, 4; iii. 5, 6, § 2; xi. 19; xii. 1, § 2, 2, 26; walk with, v. 27; reverence, v. 33; vi. 30: call on, vi. 23, 30, § 1; impartial, vii. 70; Sun and all the Gods, viii. 19; not power less, ix. 40; likeness with, x. 8, § 2; service of, iii. 4; xi. 20, § 2; allows the good to perish, xii. 5; reasoning with, xii. 5; do no wrong, xii. 12; men God-borne, xii. 23; all from God, xii. 26; man, fellow citizen of, x. 1; omnipotent, 349; judge of sovranty, 366
  • Good, the, v. 15; fountain of, in us, vii. 59
  • Good and evil, vi. 41
  • Good man, a, iv. 10, 17, 25; x. 8, 16, 32; vocation, to be, xi. 5
  • Good men, perish at death, xii. 5
  • Goodness betrays itself, xi. 15
  • Growth, x. 7, § 3
  • Handicraftsmen, zeal of, v. 1, § 2; vi. 35
  • Happiness, v. 9, 34; viii. 17, 67; viii. 1; x. 33
  • Harmony of nature, vi. 11
  • Headache, i. 16, § 7
  • Help to be welcomed, vii. 5, 7, 12
  • Herodes, 366
  • "Heroics," i. 16, 2; ix. 29; xi. 3
  • History of ancient times, iii. 14
  • Horse-racing, i. 5
  • Hosts of Heaven, xi. 27
  • Hypocrisy, ii. 16
  • Ill-omened words, xi. 34 (Epictetus)
  • Imagination or opinion or impressions (ὑπόληψις, φαντασία), ii. 15, iv. 3, 7; v. 2, 26; vii. 17, 29; viii. 40; ix. 7, 13, 21, 32, 42, § 2; xi. 18, § 7; xii. 1, 8, 22, 25, 26
  • Immortality (see Extinction), xii. 31. Marcus has no clear view of the future of the soul, whether there is another life or (he merely puts the alternative) unconsciousness, iii. 3, or a different sort of consciousness, viii. 58; or extinction, vii. 32; or a change of abode, survival for a time, and finally re-absorption into the seminal principles of the universe, iv. 21; v. 33. But he longs to believe in it, see xii. 5
  • Impiety, ix. 1
  • Impressions (φαντασία), v. 2, 16, 36; vi. 16, 36; vii. 29; viii. 29, 47, 49; certainty of, vii. 54; ix. 6
  • Indifferent things, ii. 11 ad. fin.; iv. 39; vi. 32, 41; ix. 1, § 4; xi. 16; even man is "indifferent," v. 20
  • Ingratitude, ix. 42, § 4
  • Inhumanity, vii. 65
  • Injustice, ix. 1, 4
  • Instruction, xi. 29; education, vi 16
  • Intelligence, the, iv. 4; v. 27; x. 33, § 3; xii. 14; one, iv. 40; = Nature =God, viii. 54; xii. 26; of Universe, v. 30
  • Interdependence of all things, ii. 3, 9; iv. 29; v. 8, 30; vi. 38, 42, 43; viii. 9, 19, 68 ad. fin.; viii. 7; ix. 1; x. 1
  • Interests of whole and part identical, iv. 23; v. 8; vi. 44, 45, 54; x. 6, 20, 33; xii. 23
  • Intolerance, vi. 27
  • Jews, 351, 371
  • Justice, v. 34, etc.; foundation of virtue, xi. 10; xii. 1, 3, 24; and truth, xii. 3, 29
  • Justin Martyr, remarkable parallels with passages in his Apologies, Apol. i. 18, 57 = iii. 3, § 2; Apol. i. 57 = viii. 58; Apol. i. 46=viii. 3; Apol. i. 19 = x. 26
  • Kindness irresistible, xi. 18, § 9
  • Knowledge, the true, v. 32
  • Lamiae, lit. Vampires or Ghouls, used by Socrates in the sense of "bugbears" (μορμολυκεῖα, Epict.), xi. 23
  • Latinisms, ἵν’ οὕτως εἴπω, iv. 48; σιγιλλάρια, vii. 3; i. 5. Πρασιανός, etc.; i. 16, § 4, οὐερνάκλος
  • Law, x. 25, 33, ad fin.; xi. 1, § 2; xii. 1; one, vii. 9; "all by law," vii. 31; same for God and man, viii. 2; equality of, i. 14
  • Left hand, let not, know what right hand does, v. 6, § 2; ix. 29
  • Letter-writing, i. 7, 12
  • Liar, xi. 1, 2
  • Life, a warfare, ii. 17; ephemeral, ii. 4, 17; iii. 10, 14; iv. 17, 35, 18, § 2, 50; vi. 15, 36, 56; ix. 32; x. 31, 34; xi. 18, 6; xii. 7; the same, long or short, iv. 47; xii. 36; what is, vii. 3, 48; always the same, iv. 32; life of past ages, iv. 32, 33; vi. 36; vii. 49; ix. 14; xi. 1, § 2; variety of, xii. 24; only in present, ii. 14; iii. 10; xii. 1,3; ever passing, ii. 12, 17; iv. 43; v. 23; base love of, iv. 50; a drama, xi. 1, 6; xii. 36; goal or aim or, ii. 16; vii. 58; viii. 1; xi. 21; the new life, vii. 2, § 2; x. 8; as a whole, viii. 36; another life, iii. 3; how to enjoy, xi. 29
  • Limb dismembered, viii. 34
  • Lion, iii. 2, § 1; vi. 36, § 2
  • Lollius Urbicus, 347
  • Love of neighbour, vii. 22, 31; ix. 11; x. 36, 2; xi. 1, 9
  • Love or spare your enemies, vi. 6; vii. 22, 65
  • Lucius, a philosopher, 377
  • Lust, ii. 10; ix. 40
  • Man, tripartite (body, soul, mind), ii. 2; iii. 16; vi. 32; xii. 3; intolerable, v. 10; viii. 24 ; his work, viii. 26; his relationships (σχέσεις), viii. 27; what like, x. 19; be one, xi. 18, § 10; true interest of, iii. 7; reason of = God, xii. 26
  • Many things, do not, iv. 24 (Democritus)
  • Marcus, simple life, i. 3, 6; taught at home. i. 4; dislike of the "Games," i. 5; not superstitious, i. 6; a devout worshipper, xii. 28; writes dialogues, i. 6; learns humility, i. 7; eschews poetry, rhetoric, and fine writing i. 7, 17, cp. p. 346; reads Epictetus, i. 7; learns toleration, i. 9; tact, i. 10; love of his children, i. 13, 17; reads Stoic writers, i. 14; gratitude of, i. 17; disposition to do evil, i. 17, § 1; xi. 18, 4; annoyed with Rusticus, i, 17, § 6; chastity of, i. 17, § 2; love of mother, i. 17, § 6; of his wife, i. 17, § 7; spits blood and has vertigo, i. 17, § 8; bodily weakness of, i. 17, § 6, p. 351; amatory passions of, i. 17, § 6; benefactions of, i. 17, § 7; eschews dialectics, i. 17, § 8; not skilled in them, vii. 67; viii. 1; and physics, i. 17, § 8; not skilled in them, vii. 67; grows old, ii. 2, 6; v. 31; see p. 349; thirst for books, ii. 3; address to soul, ii. 6; ix. 39; x. 1; does not reject pity, ii. 13; at Carnutum, ii. 17 ad. fin.; on the Gran, i. 17, ad. fin.; a Roman, ii. 5; iii. 5; vi. 44; a ruler, iii. 5; a bull over the herd, xi. 18, § 1; his memoranda, iii. 14; excerpts from books, iii. 14; (?) history of ancient Greeks and Romans, iii. 14; longing for country retreats, iv. 3, cp. x. 1 ; dislikes rising in the morning, v. 1; viii. 12; not sharp-witted, v. 5; vii. 67; hardly able to endure him self, v. 10; his service ended, v. 31; the court his stepmother, vi. 12; his name Antoninus, vi. 26, § 4; not Caesarified, vi. 30; conscious of failure, ii. 4, 6; v. 9, x. 8; still far from philosophy, viii. 1; life at court against it, viii. 1, 9, but cp. xi. 7; no time for study, viii. 8; death of his mother, i. 17, § 7; viii. 25; has never injured anyone, viii. 42; ? birth of a child, ix. 3; ? his child ill, viii. 49, ix. 40; weary of life and seems to wish for death, ix. 3; recalls his past life, ix. 21; playing the philosopher, ix. 29; contemns ingratitude, ix. 42, § 4; captures Sarmatians, x. 10; feels that his death is desired, x. 36; condemns Christian martyrdoms, xi. 3; his life demands philosophy, xi. 7; wonders why men value others good opinion more than their own, xii. 4; gruesome sights in war, viii. 34; pestilence, ix. 2; Marcus a man intensely eager for the common weal, xi. 13; his patrimony, 360; regret at adoption by Hadrian, 360; evils of sovranty, 360; resists popular clamour, 362; firmness of, 364; weeps, 368, 373; true to philosophy, 368; lenity, 368; free from bloodguiltiness, 368; detested avarice, 373; goes to lectures of Sextus, 377; death, 376 ff.
  • Material and causal, see Causal Medley of things (κυκεών, φυρμός), iv. 27, vi. 10; xii. 14
  • Members, all are, of the whole body, vii. 13; xi. 8
  • Meteorology, i. 17, 8
  • Mind, a citadel, viii. 48
  • Minister of the Gods, iii. 4, § 3
  • Miracles, i. 6
  • Misfortune, no evil, iv. 49, § 2, etc.
  • Mouse, fable of, xi. 22
  • Mountain, live as on a, x. 15, 23
  • Muses, the, xi. 18, 11; leader of, ibid.
  • Nature, life according to, i. 9, 17, 6; ii. 9; iv. 39, 48, 51; v. 3, 9; vi. 40, 58; viii. 1; of the Universe, ii. 3, 11; iv. 9; vii. 75; viii. 6, 50; ix. 1, 4; x. 20; xii. 23, 26; way of, ii. 17; what it sends, v. 8, 2; grumbling is contrary to, ii. 16; source of everything, v. 18; of plants and man, viii. 7; = Truth, ix. 1, 2; of living and of rational creatures, x. 2; only sends what we can bear, v. 18; viii. 46; x. 3; resignation to, x. 14; above art, xi. 10; its products beautiful, iii. 2; vi. 36; has no waste, viii. 50; the most venerable of deities, ix. 1
  • Natural affection, wanting in the Patricians, i. 11
  • Necessity, ii. 3; xii. 14, see Destiny
  • Neighbours, fellowship with (see Fellowship), ii. 1; iii. 4; v. 16: conduct towards, v. 31; ix 3, § 2, 27; love of, x 36, § 2 (see Love of neighbour); kindliness towards, xi. 18, § 9; duty to, iii. 11, § 3
  • Objective (see Aim), xii. 8, 10, 18, 20
  • Objective or external things do not touch us, iv. 3, etc.
  • Obsolete words and persons, iv. 33
  • Olives, iii. 2, § 1; iv, 48; vi. 14
  • Opinion (see also Imagination, Impressions), nothing exists but, ii. 15; iii. 9; iv. 3, § 4, 7; vi. 52; vii. 14; viii. 40, 49; x. 3; xi. 18, 7; xii. 1, 8, 22, 25 harm rests only on, iv. 3, 4; vii. 14, 29; ix. 7; away with it, xii. 25; of the many, xi. 23
  • Order, xii. 14; and chaos, iv. 27; vi. 10
  • Others thoughts, iii. 4; iv. 18
  • Organic and inorganic unity, vi. 14
  • Out of sight, out of mind, iv. 33
  • Paiderasty, i. 16, § 1; iii. 16; v. 10, §1; vi. 34
  • Pain, ii. 16; vii. 33, 64; viii. 28 .
  • Pancratium, xi. 2; xii. 9. See also wrestling
  • Parmularius (from parma, a small Thracian target or shield), one of a class of gladiators, i. 5
  • Patricians, want natural affection i. 11
  • Peitholaus, a physician, 362
  • Pessimism blamed, v. 10, 33; vi. 12; viii. 24; ix. 3, § 2; ix. 35; xi. 36

Pestilence, ix. 2 Philosophy, i. 6, 17, § 8; ii. 17; iv. 30; vi. 12; viii. 1; ix. 29, 41; xi. 7; the one thing, ii. 17; as schoolmaster, v. 9; heads of, xi. 18; philosopher, iv. 30; the true ones, i. 16. § 5

  • Physics, vii. 67; viii. 13; ix. 41 (Epicurus); x. 9, 31, § 2
  • Pity, ii. 13, see p. xiii.
  • Pleasure, v. 1, 9; and pain, ii. 16, etc.
  • Plot of ground, a man's own = his inner self, iv. 3; x. 23
  • Plural (2nd person), used generically, xi. 6
  • Poetry, i. 17, § 4
  • Pompeianus, 352
  • Popular applause (see Fame) i. 16, § 3; vi. 16, § 2
  • Posterity (see Fame), vi. 18
  • Praise, iv. 20; from what sort of men, iii. 4, § 4; vii. 62; viii. 53; ix. 18, 27, 34; x. 13; xi. 18, § 4
  • Prayer, vi. 44; ix. 40; of the Athenians, v. 7
  • Present Time only ours, ii. 14: iii. 10; xii. 1, 3, 26. See Time Principles, see Axioms
  • Proverbs, "his destiny no man can escape" (women's proverb, from Plato), viii. 46; "to the sweating state," i. 16, § 9; "the last of his race," viii. 31; "to be of one bush but not of one mind,"(? gardener s proverb), xi. 8; "the second best course," ix. 2
  • Providence. ii. 3; iv. 3, § 2, 40; vi. 10, 44; ix. 28; xii. 14, 24
  • Puppets or marionettes, men like, ii. 2; iii. 16; vi. 16; 28; vii. 29; xii. 19; in good sense, x. 38
  • Quails, i. 6
  • Quintilii. the, 373

Radiation of light, viii. 57

  • Reading—see Books
  • Reason, the ruling (τὸ ἡγεμονικόν), ii. 2; iv. 1, 38, 39; v. 3, 11; vi. 8; vii. 5, 16, 17, 28, 33; viii. 43, 48, 61; ix. 15, 22; xii. 14; emanates from God, ii. 1, 4; v. 27; ix. 8; xii. 26, 30; the reason, iv. 4, 13; vii. 9; ix. 10; x. 24; to follow, i. 8; the seminal, or generative, iv. 14, 21; vi. 24; reverence for, iv. 16; civic, iv. 29; art of, v. 14; viii. 40; shared with the Gods, vii. 53; stands aloof, v. 26; of others, vii. 55; right reason, xii. 35; master in its own house, viii. 56; our noblest part, v. 21; vi. 16; x. 13; how used by us, v. 11; x. 24; xii. 33; to be safeguarded, xi. 19; of Universe, iii. 3, v. 8, § 5; vi. 36, § 2; vii. 10, xii. 26; all rational things akin, iii. 4, § 4
  • Regeneration of things, periodic (παλιγγενεσία), vii. 19; ix. 1, § 4, 28, § 2; xi. 1, § 2. See also Heraclitus
  • Repentance and regret, v. 9, 36; viii. 10, 47; xi. 19
  • Reservation, under, or conditionally iv. 1, 51; vi. 50; xi. 37
  • Revenge, the best, vi. 6
  • Rhetoric, i. 7, 17, § 4; rhetorician's lectures, p. 375
  • River of change, see also Heraclitus
  • Roman, to think as, ii. 5; act as, iii. 5; ancient Romans, iii. 14
  • Royal conduct, vii. 36
  • Runaway slaves, x. 25
  • Salvation, how gained, xii. 29
  • Sameness in life and world, ii. 14; iv. 32, 33; vii. 1, 49; viii. 6; xi. 1; xii. 24
  • Sanctity (ὁσιότης), v. 9; xi. 20, § 2; xii. 1
  • Schools, public, i. 4
  • Scowling face, vii. 24
  • Scutarius, a gladiator with a large Samnite shield (scutum), i. 5
  • Self, retirement into, iv. 3, 1, §§ 4; vii. 28, 33, 59; viii. 48
  • Senate, viii. 30; see also p. 353; deference to, 376
  • Serene face, vi. 30; vii. 60
  • Sensation, bodily, v. 26, etc
  • Sexual intercourse, vi. 13; viii. 21 (MS); x. 19
  • Similes, hands, feet, teeth, ii. 1; vi. 33; signal of battle, iii. 5; storming a breach, vii. 7; drama, iii. 8; xii. 36; doctors, iii. 13; vi. 35, 55; viii. 15; fire, iv. 1; x. 31, 2; incense, iv. 15; head land of rock, iv. 49; bread, figs, olives, ears of corn, lion, wild boar, iii. 2; spider, v. 1; x. 10; bee, v. 1; vi. 54; x. 8; xi. 18; vine, v. 6, § 1, etc; masons, v. 8; sore eyes, v. 9; children's quarrels, v. 33; ix. 24; flow of river, v. 23; vii. 19; ix. 29 (see Heraclitus); snapping terriers, v. 33; pet dogs, vii. 3; fish-ponds, vii. 3; ants, v. 1; vii. 3; mice, vii. 3, xi. 22; strong smell, v. 28 xi. 15; harmony, vi. 11; ball-play, vi. 57; viii. 20; bubble, viii. 20; sphere, viii. 41; cobbler and carpenter, viii. 50; fountain, viii. 51, § 2; amphitheatre, x. 8; pancratiast, xi. 2; xii. 9; plot of ground, iv. 3; x. 23; pig sacrificed, x. 28; digestion, x. 31, § 2, 35; cylinder, x. 33, § 3; sound eye, x. 35; shuttle, pen, whip, x. 38; desertion, xi. 9, 20, § 2; riding, xii. 6; banishment, xii. 36; light, xii. 15; sands of the sea, vii. 34; mill, x. 35
  • Simplicity, iv. 26, 37; vii. 31; ix. 37; x. 9, § 2
  • Singing, xi. 2
  • Sleep, ii. 1; iv. 46; v. 1; vi. 42
  • Smoke, v. 29; all things are as, x. 31; xii. 27, 33. See also flyleaf
  • Smyrna, earthquake, 373, 387
  • Social acts, see Fellowship
  • Soul, (ψυχή), one, xiii. 30; when given, xii. 24; a sphere, xi. 12; of animals, ix. 9, § 2 ; transference after death, v. 33; extinguished, vii. 32; viii. 5, 25; xi. 3; taken up into the primary fire, iv. 21; vi. 24; x. 7, § 2; scattered into the atoms, vii. 32; x. 7, § 2; xi. 3; its proper sphere, vi. 14; of God, v. 34 ; an exhalation from blood, v. 33; vi. 15; = ruling reason, her own master, v. 19, 20; existence of, after death, iv. 21; xi. 3; xii. 5; addressed, ii. 6; xi. 1; attributes of, xi. 1
  • Speaking, in public, v. 36; viii. 5, 30 ; truthful, iii. 12, 16, § 2 ; superfluous, in. 5; clear, viii. 51 ; freedom of speech, vi. 30
  • Spectacles, public, i. 16, § 7; in Sparta, xi. 24. See also p. 362
  • Sphere, viii. 41; xi. 12; xii. 3
  • Stars, vi. 43; xi. 27
  • Study, viii. 8
  • Substance, as a river, v. 23 (see also Heraclitus); one, xii. 30; the Universal, vi. 1; vii. 9, 19
  • Suicide (ἐξαγωγή—not used by Marcus), iii. 1; v. 29; viii. 47; ix. 2; x. 2, § 2, 8, § 2 (see note), 32. The Stoics permitted suicide on the grounds of patriotism or philanthropy, poverty, incurable illness, senile decay, or when the true life could not otherwise be maintained, but Marcus only admitted the last
  • Suidas (circa 900) quotes Marcus 29 times, and most probably refers to him without name on 30 other occasions. Half of the quotations are from the first two books, and three-quarters under the first five letters of the alphabet
  • Superstition, i. 6, 16, § 3; vi. 30
  • Suspense of judgment (ἀποχή), i. 16, § 9; xi. 11; cp. xi. 11
  • Tact, i. 10
  • Talkers, i. 7
  • Tension (τόνος), vi. 38
  • Things, indifferent, ii. 11; seed of other things, iv. 36; transitory, v. 10, § 1, etc.; repeat themselves, iv. 44, 45; vii. 6; truly regarded, vi. 33.

Thoughts, mould character, v. 16; vii. 3; open to all, xii. 4; of others, iii. 4, § 1; our own, iii 4, § 2

  • Time, lost for ever, ii. 4; abyss of, iv. 3, § 3; 50; ix. 32; xii. 7. See Present Time
  • Tombs (or urns) watched by mourners, viii. 37
  • Tradition, iv. 46
  • Tragedy (see Drama), i. 6, § 2; iii. 7, 8; v. 29; ix. 29; xi. 3, 6; xii. 36
  • Transformation (see Change), iv. 21; v. 13; vi. 15; ix. 19, 28
  • Trials good for man, x. 33, § 4
  • Truth, learn to hear the, i. 11 note; and error, vi. 21; "heroic" truth in every word, iii. 12; has "fled to Olympus," v. 33; is one, vii. 9; soul deprived of it involuntarily, vii. 63, etc.; identical with Nature, ix. 1, § 2; from the heart, xi. 19
  • Tutor (τροφεύς), i. 5, 17, § 4; v. 31
  • Tyrants, i. 11; iv. 31; vi. 34; xii 36, p. 357
  • Tzetzes (about 1150) quotes Marcus, Chil. vii. 804 = iv. 21; Chil., vii 803, viii. 223 = v. 33, vi. 15; Chil. vii. 803, viii. 224 = vi. 13, ix. 3
  • Unity, vi. 10; ix. 9, § 2
  • Universe, a state or city, ii. 16; iii. 11; iv. 3, § 2, 4, 29; xii. 36; all things from it and to it, iv. 14; = Nature. iv. 23, 29; a living being iv. 40; the Universal Nature, ii. 16; what benefits it, benefits all, x. 6, 33; harmony of, v. 8; vi. 11 ; bound up with every part, v. 8, § 3; mystery of, v. 10; one, vii. 9; what it is, viii. 52
  • Unkindness to others; ii. 16, viii. 34; thwarting one another, ii. 1
  • Utopia (Plato's), ix. 29; impossible, v. 17; ix. 42
  • Value (ἀξία), clue, set on things; iii. 11, iv. 32; xi. 37 (Epictetus)
  • Venettanus, a partizan of the Blue Faction in the Circus, i. 5
  • Verus, Martins, 348 f., 351
  • Vice, v. 35; vii. 1, etc.
  • Victory, miraculous, 369
  • Vine, v. 6, § 1; vi. 14, 16; viii. 19, 46; ix. 10
  • Violence defined, 364
  • Virtue, virtues, iii. 6, § 1, 11, § 2; v. 6, 9, 12; ix. 42; xi. 1, § 2, 2; its own reward, v. 6; vii. 73, 74; ix. 42, 5; xi. 4; fled to Olympus, v. 33; its motion, vi. 17; what it is, vi. 50
  • Vortex, or rotation, the external circumambient (δίνη), xii. 3; the soul a vortex (ῥόμβος), ii. 17 § 1
  • Walking barefoot, v. 8
  • War, success in, iv. 48; x. 10; distaste for, iii. 3; viii. 3; x. 9
  • Web of Fate, ii. 3; iii. 4, § 3, 11, 16; iv. 26, 34, 40; v. 8, § 3; vii. 57; x. 5
  • Wickedness must exist, ix. 42, § 3; xi. 18, § 1; xii. 16, § 2
  • Wild beasts, iii. 2, § 2; iv. 16; v. 1. 20; vi. 16
  • Wit, acuteuess of, v. 5; vi. 47
  • Words, deeds, thoughts, superfluous, iv. 24
  • World, the, a city (see Universe), ii. 10; iii. 11; iv. 3, 2, 4, 29; x. 15; xii. 36; birds-eye view of, vii. 3, 48; ix. 30
  • Worth, (see Value), to be taken into account, xi. 37; xii. 1
  • Worthlessness of mundane things, ii. 12
  • Wrestling, vii. 52, 61; see also pancratium = boxing and wrestling
  • Wrong-doing, due to lust and anger, ii. 10; rests with the doer, v. 25; vii. 29; ix. 20, 38; xi. 13; doer harms himself, iv. 26; ix. 4, 38; involuntary. iv. 3, 2; vii. 22, 63 (Plato); xi. 18, 2, 3; done by others, vii. 22; viii. 55; ix. 42; doer to be kindly admonished, x. 4: our own, x. 30; xi. 18, 4
  • Zeus, v. 7, 8, 2, 27; xi. 8; city of, iv. 23 =νόμος
  • Zonaras (circa 1100) following Suidas, quotes Marcus three times, each time from the first book.