Word: aurelius
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Emperor of the Romans, translated by GEORGE LONG. New and complete edition. Boston: Lee and Shepard. New York: Charles T. Dillingham. Price...
...have received an exceedingly neat little book containing the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, which Dr. Smith, in his History of Rome, classes among the most delightful productions of the human intellect. The name of the translator, known to us all through his Ancient Atlas, is a sufficient guaranty of the manner in which the translation has been made. We have room but for one extract. It applies particularly to those who find difficulty in going to prayers...
...life of Marcus Aurelius and a short account of his philosophy is prefixed to the Meditations. A portrait from a bust in the British Museum forms the frontispiece, and a medallion on the cover is taken from a coin of the time of Aurelius...