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 power to demand it, but because Marcus said that everything, both money and all else, belonged to the Senate and the people; for We, he said, speaking to the Senate so far from having anything of our own, even live in a house that is yours.

Of this Lucius another surprising story is told. The Emperor Marcus was an eager disciple of Sextus the Boeotian philosopher, being often in his company and frequenting his house. Lucius, who had just come to Rome, asked the Emperor, whom he met on his way, where he was going to and on what errand, and Marcus answered, It is good even for an old man to learn; I am now on my way to Sextus the philosopher to learn what I do not yet know. And Lucius, raising his hand to heaven, said, “O Zeus, the king of the Romans in his old age takes up his tablets and goes to school. But my king Alexander died before he was thirty-two."

When he began to sicken, he sent for his son, and at first besought him not to neglect the relics of the war, 377