on the
Appian Way, about nineteen miles from Rome.]

[Footnote 149: This mausoleum was of white marble rising in terraces
to a great height, and was crowned by a dome on which stood a statue
of Augustus. Marcellus was the first person buried there. Its site was
near the present Porta del Popolo.]

[Footnote 150: From the translation by Alexander Thomson, revised by
T. Forester.]

[Footnote 151: The Emperor Claudius.]

[Footnote 152: Nero was born in Antium, distant from Rome about
thirty-eight miles. The Apollo Belvidere was found among its ruins.]

[Footnote 153: These baths stood west of the Pantheon. Altho of great
extent, no remains of them now exist.]

[Footnote 154: This scheme, which was a favorite one of many Roman
emperors and even of Julius Caesar, was not realized until our time.
The Corinth canal was completed in 1893.]

[Footnote 155: From the translation by Alexander Thomson, revised by
T. Forester.]

[Footnote 156: The Roman general, then leader of the revolt against
Nero, who was afterward proclaimed Emperor.]

[Footnote 157: Epaphroditus was the master of Epictetus, the Stoic
philosopher, before his freedom.]

MARCUS AURELIUS

Born in Rome in 121 A.D.; died in 180; celebrated as emperor
and Stoic philosopher; a nephew of Antoninus Pius, whom he
succeeded as emperor, with Lucius Verus; after the death of
Verus in 169 became sole emperor; his reign notable for
wisdom and the happiness of the Roman people; wrote his
"Meditations" in Greek; a bronze equestrian statue of him in
Rome is the finest extant specimen of ancient bronze.

HIS DEBT TO OTHERS[158]

1. From my grandfather Verus[159] [I learned] good morals and the
government of my temper.

2. From the reputation and remembrance of my father,[160] modesty and
a manly character.

3. From my mother,[161] piety and beneficence, and abstinence, not
only from evil deeds, but even from evil thoughts; and, further,
simplicity in my way of living, far removed from the habits of the
rich.

4. From my great-grandfather,[162] not to have frequented public
schools, and to have had good teachers at home, and to know that on
such things a man should spend liberally.

5. From my governor, to be neither of the green nor of the blue party
at the games in the circus, nor a partizan either of the Parmularius
or the Scutarius at the gladiators' fights; from him too I learned
endurance of labor and to wa