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Meditations VI.24
Death reduced to the same condition Alexander the Macedonian and his muleteer, for either they were taken back into the same Seminal Reason29 of the Universe or scattered alike into the atoms.30
- 29.Usually singular in the Greek. See iv. 14. 21; ix. 1.
- 30.Marcus puts the two alternatives (Stoic and Epicurean), though he does not himself admit the second.