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• Introduction
• A Note On the Text
• Acknowledgments
• The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
• Introduction Containing Some of the Most Memorable Passages, Preserv’d, of the Life of the Emperor Marcus Antoninus.
• Book I
• Book Ii
• Book Iii
• Book Iv
• Book V
• Book Vi
• Book Vii
• Book Viii
• Book Ix
• Book X
• Book Xi
• Book Xii
• Errata *
• Maxims of the Stoics
• Gataker’s Apology and Bibliography

A NOTE ON THE TEXT

The translation of The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus that is reproduced here is the first edition published in Glasgow by Robert Foulis in 1742. The 1742 edition was the only edition of the English translation published by the Foulis Press in the lifetime of Francis Hutcheson. The same press in 1744 published the Greek text of The Meditations established by Thomas Gataker in 1652, together with Gataker’s Latin translation.

The footnotes provided by Francis Hutcheson and James Moor for the 1742 edition remain at the foot of the page and are designated in the text, as they were in eighteenth-century editions, by asterisks, daggers, and similar symbols. Hutcheson and Moor used single square brackets to indicate the insertion of words in the text that were not in the original Greek. The notes to the text and to the footnotes that have been provided by the present editors are marked by numbers and are gathered at the end of the volume. Page breaks in the 1742 edition are indicated by the use of angle brackets (for example, page 112 begins after ).