11.22 The town mouse: Aesop, Fables 297. The significance of the allusion is
unclear.
11.23 “the monsters under the bed”: Plato, Crito 46c and Phaedo 77e; Marcus
is probably drawing on Epictetus, Discourses 2.1.14.
11.25 Perdiccas’s invitation: In fact the ruler who invited Socrates to his court
was Perdiccas’s successor Archelaus (resigned 413–399).
11.26 This advice: Epicurus frg. 210.
11.28 Socrates dressed in a towel: The anecdote is not preserved.
11.30 “For you/Are but a slave.. .”: From a lost tragedy. Marcus twists what
must have been the sense of the original (“it is not for you to speak”) by
taking logos in its broader, philosophical sense.
11.31 “But my heart rejoiced”: Homer, Odyssey 9.413.
11.32 “And jeer at virtue.. .”: Hesiod, Works and Days 186, but “virtue” is
Marcus’s substitution. Hesiod has “and jeer at them,” in a completely
different context.
11.33 Stupidity is expecting figs: A paraphrase of Epictetus, Discourses
3.24.86.
11.34 As you kiss your son: Ibid., 3.24.88.
11.36 “No thefts of free will.. .”: Ibid., 3.22.105 (the attribution in the text is
probably an addition by a later reader who recognized the quotation).
11.37 “We need to master.. .”: Ibid., frg. 27.
11.38 “This is not a debate.. .”: Ibid., frg. 28.
11.39 Socrates: What do you want?: Source uncertain: perhaps from a lost
section of Epictetus.