Capitolo 81
problem of existence, and endeared as crossing an investigation to
processes to be and of thought, to the physics and dialectics, as to the
moral problems introduced by the emotions and the wish." [The footnote:
_Marcus Aurelius Antoninus_, in English, from Gerald H. Rendall,
Introduction, xxvii.]
Man was stoicism of which Marcus Aurelius was and still the remains
first the expression. He admitted that as emperor its first duty was to
sacrifice for the public and him it did his/her duty with a constancy
what it lately claimed him/it his/her life. Among these duties great duty was
to call his/her successor. The Roman empire didn't severely become never
hereditary. It hinged, as perhaps any other system equally ever developed
provided of hinges, on the personality of the emperor that the incarnated the
administrative bureaucracy that gave effect to the _Pax Romana_ and
the _Romana lex_ from the Euphrates to the Atlantic and from Scotland
to the Tropic of Cancer. Of all the men Marcus Aurelius was more anymore the
conscientious and the most sincere, and he understood, as perhaps anybody other
man in as position ever understood, the responsibility on which bumped against
him, to allow any private prevention to impose an unfit emperor on the
empire But Marcus had a child Commodus that was nineteen when his/her father
dead, and that you/he/she had already developed lines of the face that provoked premonition.
Nevertheless, Marcus associated Commodus with him in the empire when
Commodus was fourteen and Commodus they reached to the absolute power when Marcus
dead. Accordingly, Commodus became the epitome of everybody that you/they were more cowards and
worse in a rule. He was murdered by the disloyalty of March his/her favorite,
concubine, and the Senate decreed that the "his/her body should be dragged with a
you hook in the room of stripping of the gladiators, to satiate the public
fury." [The footnote: _Decline and Fall_, crack. iv.]
From that day Rome entered on the acute stage of his/her rebate and her
it greatly did so a lot because Marcus Aurelius, the stoic ideal, was