Meditations I.13

From Catulus,²⁴ not to disregard a friend’s expostulation even when it is unreasonable, but to try to bring him back to his usual friendliness; and to speak with whole-hearted good-will of one’s teachers, as it is recorded that Domitius²⁵ did of Athenodotus; and to be genuinely fond of one’s children.

• 24.A Stoic, see Capitolinus’s Life of Marcus iii. 2.

  Cinna Catulus appears in Capitolinus’s list of Marcus’s Stoic teachers alongside Sextus, Rusticus, and Maximus.

• 25.Domitii were among the maternal ancestors of Marcus, and an Athenodotus was Fronto’s teacher (letter to Marcus as Caesar, iv. 12; Naber’s edition p. 73).

  Marcus’s mother was Domitia Lucilla, hence Haines’s suggestion that the Domitius here belongs to her family; neither Domitius nor Athenodotus can be identified with certainty.