Meditations

by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius · language: en

Vocabulary level: Intermediate · Flesch–Kincaid grade 11 · 2,551 sentences

Vocabulary level is estimated from word frequency, not an official CEFR classification.

Subjects: Ethics · Life · Stoics

Words worth knowing: seasonable · wheresoever · tractable · rhetorician · undervalue · slavish · furtherance · putrid

MEDITATIONS By Marcus Aurelius CONTENTS NOTES INTRODUCTION FIRST BOOK SECOND BOOK THIRD BOOK FOURTH BOOK FIFTH BOOK SIXTH BOOK SEVENTH BOOK EIGHTH BOOK NINTH BOOK TENTH BOOK ELEVENTH BOOK TWELFTH BOOK APPENDIX GLOSSARY INTRODUCTION MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS was born on April 26, A.D. 121.

His real name was M. Annius Verus, and he was sprung of a noble family which claimed descent from Numa, second King of Rome.

Thus the most religious of emperors came of the blood of the most pious of early kings.

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