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 , XI. 1; cp. VII. 19. The Stoic theory was that everything repeated itself in periodic cycles, when the world was renewed again after each conflagration (see and under Heraclitus); cp. Chrysippus,, there will be another Socrates to live the same life again"; and Seneca, Ep. 36. 10, "veniet iterum qui nos in lucem reponat dies." But whether Marcus believed in this dismal theory is very doubtful, cp. X. 31.

. opposed line in battle, so opposition, not obstinacy (XI. 3) III. 3; VIII. 48. See also p. 381.

)( . V. 1, a passive condition antecedent to a in the case of the body, corresponding to an  of the mind, III. 6; V. 26; VI. 51; VII. 55; IX. 16

, V. 13,32; x. 7. See

=, II. 2; the surrounding air, IX. 2; the inferior part of the as distinct from, IV. 3; it and its motion quite distinct from the, IV. 3. Marcus does not seem to use the word in the sense of Atmospheric Current unless XII. 30 affords an instance.

, what remains of things when, , and are subtracted, XII. 30

, the Soul (= ) of which the or breath element at death goes back into, and the  into , IV. 4; Χ.7 ; XI. 20

= (1) (Soul) in its lower sense (, XII. 14) II. 2; VIII. 56; IX, 36; XII. 3, 14; (2) in its higher sense, including the vous, V. 26. 33; VI. 14; IX. 8, 34; XII. 30; the enveloping body and the that has grown with its growth, XII. 3; the vital breath which will be quenched or transferred elsewhere, VIII. 25; the sphere of it and the body outside our power, v. 33; unstable like all matter, IX. 36; burdened with the body, IX. 24. See under

,, the property, quality, or form of a thing (almost the Cause which makes it what it is, IX. 25); , separate individuality, VI. 3; IX. 25; X. 7; XII. 30

, mostly =. See

, free will or choice. See under

(= ), the faculty of choice, VIII. 56, the leading or cardinal thing, VII. 55; VIII. 49; IX. 41. Marcus does not use the Stoic expression things preferential

= a primary conception possessed by all rational beings, Chrysippus in Diog. Laert. vii 53. Perceptions resulting from sensation  produce impressions  which repeated form memory and many memories make experience which gives us conceptions

, (cp. ), a disintegration of things into their component atoms (VI. 24; VII. 32: VIII. 25) or elements. See under Dispersion and Dissolution

(or, V. 15, 16), the end or objective of life, II. 16; VII. 4; XI. 6, 21; to which every and  should be directed, II. 7. See under Aim, Objective

(see under ), IV. 14, 21; VI. 24; IX. 1 ad fin. = the Generative Reason, because the Primary Fire or Reason contains in it the Germs of all things. The are the creative and forming forces in Nature which have produced (1) the Universe as a whole, and (2) individual things individually. Justin, Apol. ii. 8. 13, applies the Stoic term to Christ 412