The Slow Shelf · Library · Authors · Subjects · About

Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus · Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome

Section 43

[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.

[Greek: kosmos, ho olos], the universe, that which is the One and the all (vi. 25).

[Greek: krima], a judgment.

[Greek: kyrieuon, to endon], that which rules within (iv. 1), the same as [Greek: to hêgemonikon]. Diogenes Laertius vii., Zeno. [Greek: hêgemonikon de einai to kyriôtaton tês psychês].

[Greek: logika, ta], the things which have reason.

[Greek: logikos], rational.

[Greek: logos], reason.

[Greek: logos spermatikos], seminal principle.

[Greek: mesa, ta], things indifferent, viewed with respect to virtue.

[Greek: noeros], intellectual.

[Greek: nomos], law.

[Greek: nous], intelligence, understanding.

[Greek: oiêsis], arrogance, pride. It sometimes means in Antoninus the same as [Greek: typhos]; but it also means "opinion."

[Greek: oikonomia] (dispositio, ordo, Cic.) has sometimes the peculiar sense of artifice, or doing something with an apparent purpose different from the real purpose.

[Greek: holon, to], the universe, the whole: [Greek: hê tôn olôn physis].

[Greek: onta, ta], things which exist; existence, being.

[Greek: orexis], desire of a thing, which is opposed to [Greek: ekklisis], aversion.

[Greek: hormê], movement towards an object, appetite; appetitio, naturalis appetitus, appetitus animi (Cic.).

[Greek: ousia], substance (vi. 49). Modern writers sometimes incorrectly translate it "essentia." It is often used by Epictetus in the same sense as [Greek: hylê]. Aristotle (Cat. c. 5) defines [Greek: ousia], and it is properly translated "substantia" (ed. Jul. Pacius). Porphyrius (Isag. c. 2): [Greek: hê ousia anôtatô ousa tô mêden pro autês genos hên to genikôtaton].

[Greek: parakolouthêtikê dynamis, hê], the power which enables us to observe and understand.

[Greek: peisis], passivity, opposed to [Greek: energeia]: also, affect.

[Greek: peristaseis], circumstances, the things which surround us; troubles, difficulties.

[Greek: peprômenê, hê], destiny.

[Greek: proairesis], purpose, free will (Aristot. Rhet. i. 13).

[Greek: proaireta, ta], things which are within our will or power.

[Greek: proairetikon, to], free will.

[Greek: prothesis], a purpose, proposition.

[Greek: pronoia] (providentia, Cic.), providence.

[Greek: skopos], object, purpose.

[Greek: stoicheion], element.

[Greek: synkatathesis] (assensio, approbatio, Cic.), assent; [Greek: synkatatheseis] (probationes, Gellius, xix. 1).

[Greek: synkrimata], things compounded (ii. 3).

[Greek: synkrisis], the act of combining elements out of which a body is produced, combination.

[Greek: synthesis], ordering, arrangement (compositio).

[Greek: systêma], system, a thing compounded of parts which have a certain relation to one another.

[Greek: hylê], matter, material.

[Greek: hylikon, to], the material principle.

[Greek: hypexairesis], exception, reservation; [Greek: meth' hypexaireseôs], conditionally.

[Greek: hypothesis], material to work on; thing to employ the reason on; proposition, thing assumed as matter for argument and to lead to conclusions. (Quaestionum duo sunt genera; alterum infinitum, definitum alterum. Definitum est, quod [Greek: hypothesin] Graeci, nos _causam_: infinitum, quod [Greek: thesin] illi appellant, nos _propositum_ possumus nominare. Cic. See Aristot. Anal. Post. i. c. 2).

[Greek: hypokeimena, ta], things present or existing, vi. 4; or things which are a basis or foundation.

[Greek: hypolêpsis], opinion.

[Greek: hypostasis], basis, substance, being, foundation (x. 5). Epictetus has [Greek: to hypostatikon kai ousiôdes]. (Justinus ad Diogn. c. 2.)

[Greek: hyphistasthai], to subsist, to be.

[Greek: phantasiai] (visus, Cic.); appearances, thoughts, impressions (visa animi, Gellius, xix. 1): [Greek: phantasia esti typôsis en psychê].

[Greek: phantasma], seems to be used by Antoninus in the same sense as [Greek: phantasia]. Epictetus uses only [Greek: phantasia].

[Greek: phantaston], that which produces a [Greek: phantasia: phantaston to tepsiêkos tên phantasian aisthêton]

[Greek: physis], nature.

[Greek: physis hê tôn olôn], the nature of the universe.

[Greek: psychê], soul, life, living principle.

[Greek: psychê logikê, noera], a rational soul, an intelligent soul

GENERAL INDEX.

*** The paragraphs (par.) and lines (l.) are those of the sections.

Active, man is by nature, ix. 16.

Advice from the good to be taken, vii. 21; viii. 16.

Affectation, vii. 60; viii. 30; xi. 18 (par. 9), 19.

Anger discouraged, vi. 26, 27; xi. 18.

Anger, offenses of, ii. 10.

Anger, uselessness of, v. 28; viii. 4.

Appearances not to be regarded, v. 36; vi. 3, 13.

Astonishment should not be felt at any thing that happens, viii. 15; xii. 1 (sub fine), 13.

Attainment, what is within every one's, vii. 67; viii. 8.

Attention to what is said or done, vi. 53; vii. 4, 30; viii. 22.

Bad, the, ii. 1.

Beautiful, the, ii. 1.

Casual. _See_ Formal.

Change keeps the world ever new, vii. 25; viii. 50 (l. 13); xii. 23 (l. 10).

Change, law of, iv. 3 (sub f.), 36, v. 13, 23; vi. 4, 15, 36; vii. 18; viii. 6; ix. 19, 28 (par. 2), 35; x. 7, 18; xii. 21.

Change, no evil in, iv. 42.

Christians, the xi. 3.

Circle, things come round in a, ii. 14.

Comedy, new, xi. 6.

Comedy, Old, xi. 6.

Complaining, uselessness of, viii. 17, 50.

Connection. _See_ Universe.

Conquerers are robbers, x. 10.

Contentment. _See_ Resignation.

Co-operation. _See_ Mankind and Universe.

Daemon, the, ii. 13, 17; iii. 6 (l. 8), 7, 16 (l. 18); v. 10 (sub f.) 27; xii. 3 (sub. f.).

Death, ii. 11, 12, 17; iii. 3, 7; iv. 5; v. 33; vi. 2, 24, 28; vii. 32; viii. 20, 58; ix. 3, 21; x. 36; xii. 23, 34, 35.

Death inevitable, iii. 3; iv. 3 (l. 22), 6, 32, 48, 50; v. 33; vi. 47; viii. 25, 31.

Desire, offenses of, ii. 10.

Destiny, iii. 11 (l. 19); iv. 26; v. 8 (l. 13, etc.), 24; vii. 57; x. 5.

Discontent. _See_ Resignation.

Doubts discussed, vi. 10; vii. 75; ix. 28, 39; xii. 5, 14.

Duty, all-importance of, vi. 2, 22; x. 22.

Earth, insignificance of the, iii. 10; iv. 3 (par. 1, sub f.); vi. 36; viii. 21; xii. 32.

Earthly things, transitory nature of, ii. 12, 17; iv. 32, 33, 35, 48; v. 23; vi. 15, 36; vii. 21, 34; viii. 21, 25; x. 18, 31; xii. 27.

Earthly things, worthlessness of, ii. 12; v. 10, 33; vi. 15; vii. 3; ix. 24, 36; xi. 2; xii. 27.

Equanimity, x. 8.

Example, we should not follow bad, vi. 6; vii. 65.

Existence, meanness of, viii. 24.

Existence, the object of, v. 1; viii. 19.

Elsewhere on the shelf