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Meditations · Marcus Aurelius

Book X. Xxii. The Greek Means, "Paltry Breath Bearing Up Corpses,

BOOK X XXII. The Greek means, "paltry breath bearing up corpses,

so that the tale of Dead Man's Land is clearer."

XXII. "The poet" (21): Euripides, frag. 898 (Nauck);

compare Aeschylus, Danaides, frag. 44.

XXIV. "Plato" (23): Theaetetus, p. 174 D.

XXXIV. "The poet" (34): Homer, Iliad, vi. 147.

XXXIV. "Wood": A translation of ulh, "matter."

XXXVIII. "Rhetoric" (38): Rather "the gift of speech";

or perhaps the "decree" of the reasoning faculty.