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h a kind of life; that I never touched either Benedicta or Theodotus; and that, after having fallen into amatory passions, I was cured; and, tho I was often out of humor with Rusticus, I never did anything of which I had occasion to repent; that, tho it was my mother's fate to die young, she spent the last years of her life with me; that, whenever I wished to help any man in his need, or on any other occasion, I was never told that I had not the means of doing it; and that to myself the same necessity never happened, to receive anything from another; that I have such a wife, so obedient, and so affectionate, and so simple; that I had abundance of good masters for my children; and that remedies have been shown to me by dreams, both others, and against blood-spitting and giddiness; and that, when I had an inclination to philosophy, I did not fall into the hands of any sophist.
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 158: From the "Meditations." Translated by George Long.]
[Footnote 159: Annius Verus.]
[Footnote 160: His father's name also was Annius Verus.]
[Footnote 161: His mother was Domitia Calvilla, named also Lucilla.]
[Footnote 162: His mother's grandfather, Catilius Severus, may be referred to here.]
[Footnote 163: The translator notes that, in the works of Justinus, is printed a letter from one Diognetus, a Gentile, who wished very much to know what the religion of the Christians was, and how it had taught them to believe neither in the gods of the Greeks nor the superstitions of the Jews. It has been suggested that this Diognetus may have been the tutor of Marcus Aurelius.]
[Footnote 164: Junius Rusticus, a Stoic philosopher, whom the author highly valued.]
[Footnote 165: Apollonius of Chalcis, who came to Rome to be the author's preceptor. He was a rigid Stoic.]
[Footnote 166: Sextus of Chæronea, a grandson, or nephew, of Plutarch.]
[Footnote 167: Alexander, a native of Phrygia, wrote a commentary on Homer.]
[Footnote 168: Cornelius F