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Marcus Aurelius · Meditations §4.35.1

The Ephemeral Nature of Remembrancer and Remembered

Passage 85 of 486 · Greek

Summary

Points out that everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered.

§4.35.1Πᾶν ἐφήμερον, καὶ τὸ μνημονεῦον καὶ τὸ μνημονευόμενον.
Everything is but of a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered.

Notes

  1. §4.35.1ἐφήμερον — Nominative neuter singular of the adjective ἐφήμερος (lasting but a day, ephemeral), functioning as the predicate for the subject πᾶν with the copula ἐστί omitted.
  2. §4.35.1τὸ μνημονεῦον καὶ τὸ μνημονευόμενον — Substantive uses of the active present participle (τὸ μνημονεῦον) and the passive present participle (τὸ μνημονευόμενον) in the neuter singular with the article. They refer to the subject that remembers and the object that is remembered, standing in apposition to the subject πᾶν.

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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations §4.35.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0562.tlg001.humanitext-grc2:4.35.1

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