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Marcus Aurelius · Meditations §4.28.1

Enumeration of Vicious and Degraded Human Characters

Passage 78 of 486 · Greek

Summary

A sharp enumeration of various undesirable human characters, such as being black, stubborn, beastly, or tyrannical.

§4.28.1Μέλαν ἦθος, θῆλυ ἦθος, περισκελὲς ἦθος, θηριῶδες, βοσκηματῶδες, παιδαριῶδες, βλακικόν, κίβδηλον, βωμολόχον, καπηλικόν, τυραννικόν.
A black character, a womanish character, a stubborn character, beastly, brutish, childish, silly, counterfeit, scurrilous, mercenary, tyrannical.

Notes

  1. §4.28.1Μέλαν ἦθος... τυραννικόν — This section contains no verb and consists entirely of the neuter singular noun ἦθος (character) and a series of agreeing neuter singular adjectives. They are listed as a series of nominal phrases representing negative human traits to be avoided.

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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations §4.28.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0562.tlg001.humanitext-grc2:4.28.1

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