Marcus Aurelius

Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning (1605) based on Meditations of Marcus Aurelius... 

The concoction took some 40 days to prepare, after which the process of maturation began. Twelve years was considered by Galen the proper period to keep it before use. Galen records that Marcus Aurelius consumed the preparation within two months of its being compounded without ill effect. 

Galen (129-c. 199) An ancient Roman surgeon, scientist, and philosopher, Galen traveled and studied widely before serving as physician to Roman emperors Marcus Aurelius (121-180), Commodus (161-192), Septimus Severus (146-211), and Cara-caUa (188-217). In the course of his education he... 

It is important to notice that Philippa followed the ancient Roman rule of seeking a curator for a specific transaction and of requesting this appointment directly from a state official. Despite the legislation of Marcus Aurelius and the decrees of subsequent Byzantine emperors that equated guardians with curators, some East Roman subjects or their lawyers seem to have been aware of the Late Republican and Early Imperial period ideas about curatorship. 

All translations of Marcus Aurelius are my own, based on the Greek text established by Joachim Dalfen, MarciAurelUAntonim adse tpsum libriXII (Leipzig Teubner, 1979). 

E.R. Dodds, Pagans and Christians in an Age of Anxiety Some Aspects of Religious Experience from Marcus Aurelius to Constantine (Cambridge Cambridge University F ess, 1965), 43-... 

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. The Communings with Himself. Edited by C.R. Haines. LCL. London Heinemann, 1916. 

The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. Edited and translated by S.L. Far-quharson. Oxford Oxford University Press, 1989. 

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