The Text
Meditations XII.22
Remember that all is but as thy opinion of it,33 and that is in thy power. Efface thy opinion then, as thou mayest do at will, and lo, a great calm! Like a mariner that has turned the headland thou findest all at set-fair and a halcyon sea.34
- 33.See ii. 15 etc.
- 34.Compare Lucian’s The Scythian, near the end.
Lucian’s The Scythian tells of the arrival in Athens of the Scythian Anacharsis.