Meditations X.19

What are they like when eating, sleeping, coupling, evacuating, and the rest! What again when lording it over others, when puffed up with pride, when filled with resentment or rebuking others from a loftier plane! Yet but a moment ago they were lackeying how many and for what ends, and anon will be at their old trade.³⁰

• 30.Or, taking Gataker’s emendation (ὁποίοις), in what plight will they be!