Meditations
Meditations is the private notebook of Stoic reflections that the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote in Greek, probably around AD 170 to 180. It was first printed in Zurich by Andreas Gessner in 1558 or 1559, edited by Wilhelm Xylander, and first put into English by Meric Casaubon in 1634.
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- Andreas Gessner, Zurich, 1635
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- M. Flesher for Richard Mynne, 1634
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- Meditations, Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
- Wilhelm Xylander, Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 1634, Bauman Rare Books (baumanrarebooks.com)
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