§10.20.1Συμφέρει ἑκάστῳ ὃ φέρει ἑκάστῳ ἡ τῶν ὅλων φύσις, καὶ τότε συμφέρει ὅτε ἐκείνη φέρει.
What the nature of the whole brings to each is beneficial to each, and it is beneficial at the very time when she brings it.
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations §10.20.1
The Timely Benefit Brought to Each by Universal Nature
Summary
The author asserts that whatever the nature of the whole brings to each individual is beneficial to them, precisely at the time it is brought.
Notes
- §10.20.1ὃ φέρει ἑκάστῳ ἡ τῶν ὅλων φύσις — This entire clause introduced by the relative pronoun ὅ functions as the subject clause of the verb συμφέρει in the main clause. Within the relative clause, ἡ τῶν ὅλων φύσις is the subject, φέρει is the verb, and ἑκάστῳ is the indirect object in the dative.
- §10.20.1ἐκείνη — The demonstrative pronoun ἐκείνη (feminine singular nominative) refers back to the feminine noun phrase ἡ τῶν ὅλων φύσις (the nature of the whole). The object of the accompanying verb φέρει is omitted as it is understood from the preceding relative pronoun ὅ.
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations §10.20.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0562.tlg001.humanitext-grc2:10.20.1
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