Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius AntoninusMarcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome
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Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome
Ethics; Life; Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome, 121-180; Stoics
[Greek: aproaireta], [Greek: ta], the things which are not in our will
or power.
[Greek: archê], a first principle.
[Greek: atomoi] (corpora individua, Cic.), atoms.
[Greek: autarkeia] est quae parvo contenta omne id respuit quod abundat
(Cic.); contentment.
[Greek: autarkes], sufficient in itself; contented.
[Greek: aphormai], means, principles. The word has also other
significations in Epictetus. Index ed. Schweig.
[Greek: gignomena], [Greek: ta], things which are produced, come into
existence.
[Greek: daimôn], god, god in man, man's intelligent principle.
[Greek: diathesis], disposition, affection of the mind.
[Greek: diairesis], division of things into their parts, dissection,
resolution, analysis.
[Greek: dialektikê], ars bene disserendi et vera ac falsa dijudicandi
(Cic.).
[Greek: dialysis], dissolution, the opposite of [Greek: sygkrisis].
[Greek: dianoia], understanding; sometimes, the mind generally,
the whole intellectual power.
[Greek: dogmata] (decreta, Cic.), principles.
[Greek: dynamis noera], intellectual faculty.
[Greek: enkrateia], temperance, self-restraint.
[Greek: eidos] in divisione formae sunt, quas Graeci [Greek: eidê]
vocant; nostri, si qui haec forte tractant, species appellant (Cic.).
But [Greek: eidos] is used by Epictetus and Antoninus less exactly and
as a general term, like _genus_. Index Epict. ed. Schweig.--[Greek:
Hôs de ge ahi prôtai ousiai pros ta alla echousin, outô kai to eidos
pros to genos echei hypokeitai gar to eidos tô genei]. (Aristot. Cat.
c. 5.)
[Greek: eimarmenê] (fatalis necessitas, fatum, Cic.), destiny,
necessity.
[Greek: ekkliseis], aversions, avoidance, the turning away from
things; the opposite of [Greek: orexeiz.]
[Greek: empsycha, ta] things which have life.
[Greek: energeia], action, activity.
[Greek: ennoia], [Greek: ennoiai], notio, notiones (Cic.), or "notitiae
rerum;" notions of things. (Notionem appello quam Graeci tum [Greek:
ennoian], tum [Greek: prolêpsin], Cic.).
[Greek: enôsis], [Greek: ê], the unity.
[Greek: epistrophê], attention to an object.
[Greek: euthymia], animi tranquillitas (Cic.).
[Greek: eumenes], [Greek: to], [Greek: eumeneia], benevolence; [Greek:
eumenês] sometimes means well-contented.
[Greek: eunoia], benevolence.
[Greek: exousia], power, faculty.
[Greek: epakolouthêsin], [Greek: kata], by way of sequence.
[Greek: hêgemonikon], [Greek: to], the ruling faculty or part; principatus
(Cic.).
[Greek: theôrêmata], percepta (Cic.), things perceived, general
principles.
[Greek: kathêkein], [Greek: to], duty, "officium."
[Greek: kalos], beautiful.
[Greek: katalêpsis], comprehension; cognitio, perceptio, comprehensio
(Cic.).
[Greek: kataskeuê], constitution.
[Greek: katorthôseis, katorthômata]; recta, recte facta (Cic.); right
acts, those acts to which we proceed by the right or straight road.
[Greek: kosmos], order, world, universe.
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