and have marked with an obelus (<... >) a few passages
where the original is impossible to reconstruct.
- William Alexander Percy, Lanterns on the Levee (Baton
Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1973), p. 313.
- A survey of work on the predecessors and rivals of the
Stoics is obviously beyond the scope of this note, but two
good starting points may be mentioned. The surviving
fragments of Heraclitus and other early philosophers who
appear in the Meditations are translated in Kathleen
Freeman, Ancilla to the Presocratic Philosophers
(Oxford: Blackwell, 1948 and later reprints). Any reader
unfamiliar with Plato should probably begin with the
Apology of Socrates, available in the Modern Library’s
Selected Dialogues of Plato, trans. B. Jowett, rev. H.
Pelliccia (New York: Random House, 2000) or any
number of other translations.
