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johnnyFive  ·  1859 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: March 20, 2019

Just as a clarification, Marcus Aurelius wrote the Meditations in Greek.





Dala  ·  1857 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The introduction to one of my versions does mention that they were, because Greek was the scholarly language at the time (especially for philosophy).

johnnyFive  ·  1857 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Right. But you referred above to a copy having "the original Latin," which is inaccurate.

Dala  ·  1857 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I replied in assumption that darlin’ was correct in using Latin, and then remembered what I read about it being originally written in Greek in the introduction when you posted the correction.