prosecuted and condemned him.3.6 as Socrates used to say: It is not clear whether Marcus is alluding to a
specific passage (perhaps Plato, Phaedo 83a–b) or merely to a general
impression of Socratic doctrine.
3.14 your Brief Comments: Evidently collections of anecdotes and/or quotations
put together by Marcus himself for his own use, like parts of the extant
Meditations.
3.15 They don’t realize... : The significance of this entry (particularly the last
phrase) is unclear.
3.16 people who do <... >: It seems clear that something is missing from the
text, perhaps deliberately omitted by a prudish copyist.
4.3 to ward off all <... >: The missing word must be something like “anxiety.”
“The world is nothing but change.. .”: Democritus frg. B 115.4.18 <... > not to be distracted: The text as transmitted includes the words
“good,” “black character,” and “suspicion,” but no coherent sense can
be made of them.
4.19 You’re out of step... : The text of this sentence is disturbed and the
translation correspondingly uncertain.
4.23 The poet: Aristophanes frg. 112.
4.24 “If you seek tranquillity.. .”: Democritus frg. B 3.
4.30 A philosopher without clothes... : If the text is sound it is not easy to
interpret convincingly. The rendering here (which differs from most
previous versions) represents my best guess at the sense, but is far from
certain.
4.33 Camillus, Caeso, Volesus, Dentatus: Heroes of the Roman Republic (see