Meditations XI.32

Virtue they will upbraid and speak harsh words in her hearing.⁸⁰

• 80.Hesiod’s Works and Days 185, where the reading is ἄρα τοῖς for ἀρετήν.

  In Works and Days the line describes children who reproach their aging parents; Hesiod’s text has ara tois, “then... them,” where Marcus’s quotation reads aretēn, “virtue.”