The Emperor Marcus Antoninus: His Conversation with Himself

by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

For other English-language translations of this work, see Meditations.

 

THE
EMPEROR
Marcus Antoninus
HIS
CONVERSATION
With Himself

TOGETHER

With the Preliminary Discourse of the Learned
Gataker.

As also,

The Emperor's Life, Written by Monsieur D'acier,
and Supported by the Authorities Collected by
Dr. Stanhope.

To which is added the Mythological Picture of
Cebes the Theban, &c.

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Translated into English from the Respective Originals,
By Jeremy Collier, M. A.

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LONDON:

Printed for R. Sare, and to be Sold by William
Davies at the Black-Bull in Cornhil, 1702.

 

Contents

Chapters (not listed in original)

• Preface
• Gataker's Preliminary Discourse
• The Life of the Emperour Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
• The Emperour Marcus Antoninus, his Conversation, or, Discourses with Himself:
  • Book I.
  • Book II.
  • Book III.
  • Book IV.
  • Book V.
  • Book VI.
  • Book VII.
  • Book VIII.
  • Book IX.
  • Book X.
  • Book XI.
  • Book XII.
• The Mythological Picture of Cebes the Theban

 

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Errata.

The Emperor's Life. Page xcvii. Line 20. dele ever, p. cix. I. 12. Read founded.

In Gataker, p. 13. l. 7. r. then.

In Annotations, p. 21. l. 21. r. furnish'd him, p. 30. l. 10. r. Aboard, p. 87. l. 6. r. squeezed, Ib. Marg. r. Falernus, p. 88. l. 12. r. mightily, p. 96. I. 30. r. World, p.98. l. 25. r. Coarse, p. 101. l. 27. r. absurd, p. 103. l. 15. r. in, Ib. l. 26, r. Repetitions, p. 105. l. 1. r. entertaining, p. 111. l. 30. r. ’twas, p. 112. l. 23. r. to, Ib. l. 26, r. knows, p. 157. l. 1. r. Administration, p. 161. l. 13. r. higher, p. 164. l. 26. r. thing p. 175. l. 21. r. Doctors, p. 177. l. 15. r. his Falsehood, p. 179. l. 27. r. look’d p. 218. l. 23. r. Earthy.

In Cebes p. 247. l. 26. r. favours.

 

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ΜΆρκου Ἀντονίνου τοῦ Ἀντοκράτορος τῶν ἐις ἑαυτόν Βιβλία ιβ´. Marci Antonini Imperatoris, de rebus suis, sive de eis quæ ad se pertinere censebat, Libri XII. Locis hand Paucis Repurgati, Suppleti, Restituti: Versione insuper Latina Nova; Lectionibus item variis, Locisq; parallelis ad Marginem adjectis: Ac Commentario Perpetuo Explicati atque Illustrati. Studio Operaque Thomœ Gatakeri, Londinatis. Huic Secundæ Editioni acceffere Annotationes Selectiores A. D'Acerii Latinitate Donatæ, Necnon Marci Antonini Vita, Passim aucta, & Idoneis Scriptorum Veterum Testimoniis firmata; a Geo. Stanhope, Coll. Reg. apud Cantabr. quondam Socio.

Londini: Impensis Edv. Millingtoni, in Vico vulgo dicto Little Britain. Veneunt apud Bibliopolas Londin. & utriusque Academiæ. 1697.

 

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