rather look to this only in all that he does, whether he is
doing what is just or unjust, and the works of a good or bad man.

45. [C]For thus it is, men of Athens, in truth: wherever a man has
placed himself thinking it the best place for him, or has been placed by
a commander, there in my opinion he ought to stay and to abide the
hazard, taking nothing into the reckoning, either death or anything
else, before the baseness [of deserting his post].

[A] See Aristophanes, Acharnenses, v. 661.

[B] From the Apologia, c. 16.

[C] From the Apologia, c. 16.

46. But, my good friend, reflect whether that which is noble and good is
not something different from saving and being saved; for+ as to a man
living such or such a time, at least one who is really a man, consider
if this is not---a thing to be dismissed from the thoughts:+ and there
must be no love of life: but as to these matters a man must intrust them
to the Deity and believe what the women say, that no man can escape his
destiny, the next inquiry being how he may best live the time that he
has to live.[A]

47. Look round at the courses of the stars, as if thou wert going along
with them; and constantly consider the changes of the elements into one
another, for such thoughts purge away the filth of the terrene life.

48. This is a fine saying of Plato:[B] That he who is discoursing about
men should look also at earthly things as if he viewed them from some
higher place; should look at them in their assemblies, armies,
agricultural labors, marriages, treaties, births, deaths, noise of the
courts of justice, desert places, various nations of barbarians, feasts,
lamentations, markets, a mixture of all things and an orderly
combination of contraries.

[A] Plato, Gorgias, c. 68 (512). In this passage the text of
Antoninus has [Greek: eateon], which is perhaps right; but
there is a difficulty in the words [Greek: me gar touto men,
to zen hoposonde chronon tonge hos alethos andra eateon esti, kai
ou] &C. The conjecture [Greek: eukteon] for [Greek: eateon]
does not mend the matter.

[B] It is said that this is not in the extant writings of
Plato.

49. Consider the past,--such great changes of political supremacies;
thou mayest foresee also the things which will be. For they will
certainly be of like form, and it is not possible that they should
deviate from the order of the things which take place now; accordingly
to have contemp