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Marcus Aurelius · Meditations §7.65.1

Not Harboring Inhuman Feelings Toward the Inhuman

Passage 261 of 486 · Greek

Summary

He admonishes himself not to feel towards inhuman people as they themselves feel towards other human beings.

§7.65.1Ὅρα μήποτέ τι τοιοῦτον πάθῃς πρὸς τοὺς ἀπανθρώπους, οἷον οἱ ἀπάνθρωποι πρὸς τοὺς ἀνθρώπους.
See to it that you never feel towards the inhuman as the inhuman feel towards human beings.

Notes

  1. §7.65.1Ὅρα μήποτέ ... πάθῃς — The imperative "ὅρα" followed by the subjunctive ("πάθῃς", second-person singular aorist subjunctive of "πάσχω") with "μήποτε" forms a construction meaning "see to it that you never..." or "beware lest you...".
  2. §7.65.1πάθῃς — The verb "πάσχω" (basic meaning "to suffer" or "to experience") is used here in the sense of "to feel (a certain emotion)" or "to adopt (a certain attitude)". In the subordinate clause introduced by the relative pronoun "οἷον" (correlated with "τοιοῦτον"), a corresponding third-person plural verb (such as "πάσχουσιν") is elliptically omitted at the end.

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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations §7.65.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0562.tlg001.humanitext-grc2:7.65.1

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