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 iv Aurelius. Being very young when his Father died, he was removed to his Grandfather ; Who took such care of his Education ; that as soon as he was big enough to appear out of the Nursery, he put him into the Hands of a Governour of great Merit and Integrity ; and procured him the best Masters for all the Improvements of Youth. Euphorion taught him to Read, and Geminus a Player to pronounce Gracefully. And Andro was pitch'd upon to instruct him in Musick, and Mathematicks. He learned Grammar for the Greek Tongue of Alexander, and for the Latin of Trosius Aper, Pollio, and Eutichius Proculus. His Greek Rhetorick Masters, were Annius Marcus, Caninius Celer, and Herode ; and Cornelius Fronto did him the same Service in Latin. But being of an elevated and noble Genius, and having a Passion for nothing but Reality and Truth, he spent not much time in these Studies ; but pass'd on to a more significant and necessary part of Learning, and applied himself wholly to the Stoick Philosophy. For this purpose he entertain'd Sextus Chæronensis, Plutarcks Granson, Junius Rusticus, Claudius Maximus, and Cinna Catulus, who were the most Eminent Stoicks of that Age. He likewise had the Assistance of Claudius Severus, a great Peripatetick Philosopher. Rh