INDEX OF TERMS.
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Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome and Long, George
καλός, beautiful.
κατάληψις, comprehension; cognitio, perceptio, comprehensio (Cic.).
κατασκευή, constitution.
κατορθώσεις, καταρθώματα recta, recte facta (Cic.); right acts, those acts to which we proceed by the right or straight road.
κόσμος, order, world, universe.
κόσμος, ὁ ὃλος, the universe, that which is the One and the all (vi. 25).
κρίμα, a judgment.
κυριεῦον τὸ ἔνδον, that which rules within (iv. 1), the same as τὸ ἡγεμονικόν. Diogenes Laertius vii., Zeno. ἡγεμονικόν δε εἔναι το κυριώτατον τῆς ψυχῆς.
λογικά, τά, the things which have reason.
λογικός, rational.
λόγος, reason.
λόγος σπερματικός, seminal principle.
μέσα, τά, things indifferent, viewed with respect to virtue.
νοερός, intellectual.
νόμος, law.
νοῦς, intelligence, understanding.
οἴησις, arrogance, pride. It sometimes means in Antoninus the same as τῦφος but it also means "opinion."
οἰκονομία (dispositio, ordo, Cic.) has sometimes the peculiar sense of artifice, or doing something with an apparent purpose different from the real purpose.
ὅλον, τό, the universe, the whole: ἡ τῶν ὄλων φύσις.
ὄντα, τά, things which exist; existence, being.
ὄρεξις, desire of a thing, which is opposed to ἔκκλισις, aversion.
ὁρμή, movement towards an object, appetite; appetitio, naturalis appetitus, appetitus animi (Cic.).
οὐσία, substance (vi. 49). Modern writers sometimes incorrectly translate it "essentia." It is often used by Epictetus in the same sense as ὕλη. Aristotle (Cat. c. 5) defines οὐσία, and it is properly translated "substantia" (ed. Jul. Pacius). Porphyrius (Isag. c. 2): ἡ οὐσία ἀνωτάτω οὐσα τῷ μηδὲν πρὸ αὐτῆς γένος ἠν τὸ γενικώτατον.
παρακολουθητικὴ δύναμις, ἡ, the power which enables us to observe and understand.
πεῑσις, passivity, opposed to ἐνέργεια: also, affect.
περιστάσεις, circumstances, the things which surround us; troubles, difficulties.
πεπρωμένη, ἡ, destiny.
προαίρεσις, purpose, free will (Aristot. Rhet. i. 13).
προαίρετά, τά, things which are within our will or power.
προαιρετικόν, τό, free will.
πρόθεσις, a purpose, proposition.
πρόνοια (providentia, Cic.), providence.
σκοπός, object, purpose.
στοιχεῖον, element.
συγκατάθεσις (assensio, approbatio, Cic.), assent; συγκαταθέσεις (probationes, Gellius, xix. 1).
συγκρίματα, things compounded (ii. 3).
σύγκρισις, the act of combining elements out of which a body is produced, combination.
σύνθεσις, ordering, arrangement (compositio).
σύστημα, system, a thing compounded of parts which have a certain relation to one another.
ὕλη, matter, material.