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cxliv INTRODUCTION SECT. /The funeral notes, which culminate in the Nunc Dimittis \of the closing book, are the knell of a dying age. Over the tomb of Marcus, too, the historian might fitly inscribe the mournful epitaph LAST OF HIS LINE. 1 Last of Roman Stoics, he is also the last of Emperors in whom the ancient stock of Roman virtue survived. He stood, but half unconsciously, at the outgoings of an age, filled with a sense of transitoriness in all things human, of epochs, empires, dynasties as well as individuals passing to dust and oblivion. The gloom of decadence haunted and oppressed him. Rome was in truth already bankrupt bankrupt in purse, bankrupt in intellect, bankrupt in moral and even in animal vigour. Power centred more and more in the hands of the Chief of state, not because the Emperor strained after prerogative, to which the whole bent of Marcus was opposed, but because Senate and Patricians had lost the capacity and almost the ambition for rule. When the barbarian invaders knocked at the gates of Aquileia the Emperor had to sell the imperial personalities to raise funds for war; ravaged by plague, Italy could not recruit her legions except from slaves and gladiators ; the procreation of children seemed to fail ; and from this time forth the face of the Campagna began to assume the desolation of a place of tombs. Though outwardly 'the Eternal City' stood in plenitude of world -wide power, signs of the times declared the beginning of the end. The golden pause of the Antonine age is the moment of equilibrium before the quickening acceleration of ' The Decline and Fall ' : its
MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS cxlv era dates from lyth March 180 A.D., the death-day of Marcus Antoninus. His end was as his life, deliberate, unflinching, resolute. Six days of inability to eat or drink, through which the habit of duty still struggled with the failing body ; the summons to his friends ; words tinged with a sad irony upon the vanity of life ; the passionless farewell ' Why weep for me ? think of the army and its on before. ' Farewell ! Then the safety : I do but go brief wanderings of delirium haec luctuosi belli opera sunt, then the covered head, and the everlasting rest. * Rome forgot the Emperor in the man Marcus my father ! Marcus my brother ! ' Marcus son ! my cried the bereaved citizens. At his funeral the ordinary lamentations were omitted ; and men said to one another, ' He whom the gods lent us, has rejoined the gods.' Stoicism, by its treatment of the emotions, set itself at a disadvantage ; it tended to make all life joyless, and the best life impossible. Notwithstanding, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus survives as perhaps the loftiest exemplar of unassisted duty, whom history records unalterably loyal to the noblest hypothesis of life he knew. For him, life was indeed 'more like wrestling x than dancing/ yet * in his patience he won his soul.' He lived when national virtue was dead, and almost buried ; yet by integrity, by industry, and by mere fairness of mind, he helped not a little to make Roman Law the mother of codes and the saviour of society. War was to him a hateful ' hunting of Sarmatians,' yet 'duty made him a great Captain,' and he stayed the 1 vii. 61. )
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TA EIC EAYTON MARCUS AURELIUS ANTON
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MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS TO HIMSEL
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PREFACE ENGLISH translations of Mar
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PREFACE ix In choice of readings I
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INTRODUCTORY ESSAY ON STOICISM AND
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i ORIGINS OF STOICISM xv have been
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IV. STOICISM IN HISTORY HISTORICALL
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BOOK V IN the morning, when you fee
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v TO HIMSELF 53 I walk the ways of
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v TO HIMSELF 55 ing, it will make y
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v TO HIMSELF 57 ing the perfection
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v TO HIMSELF 61 man's true end lie
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v TO HIMSELF 67 what is a name but
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vi TO HIMSELF 71 not break tune or
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vi TO HIMSELF 77 steadily to these,
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vii TO HIMSELF 93 you ; your was be
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APPENDIX SELECTED emendations of th
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