THE SAYINGS OF MARCUS
surrender the dowry.[1] But what was meant by the dowry if not the Empire, which he had received when adopted by his father-in-law at Hadrian's wish?[2]
(8) Digest iv. 2. 13 = xlviii. 7. 7 (Callistratus).
When Marcianus said, "I have done no violence," Caesar said, Do you think that violence is shewn only if men are wounded? There is violence then also, whenever a man demands back what he thinks due to him otherwise than by judicial process. But I do not think it consistent with either your modesty or your dignity or your loyalty to the state that you should do anything except legally.
(9) Galen, xiv. 658 (Kühn).
And he said to Peitholaus[3] that he had but one physician and he was a free man, and he went on to say repeatedly about me that I was the first of physicians and the only philosopher.[4]
(10) Dio, 71. 3. 3 = Fragm. Dind. v. p. 206. = Zonaras xii. 2.
And yet, though a most stubborn contest had been followed by a brilliant victory, nevertheless, when petitioned by the soldiers, the Emperor refused to give them a largess, saying only this, that the more they received beyond their fixed pay, the more would be wrung from the life-blood of their parents and kinsfolk; for in the matter
- ↑ The same thing had been said long before by Burrhus to Nero of his wife Octavia, and in that case was applicable, but it was not so in this, and besides Marcus was devoted to his wife to the last. See above, i. 17, §7; Capit. xxvi. 4 ff.; Dio, 71. 30, § 1.
- ↑ Marcus did not receive the Empire through Pius, but by Hadrian's direct nomination. The latter arranged for Marcus to marry Fabia, the sister of Lucius Commodus, but Pius broke this arrangement in favour of his own daughter Faustina. She inherited an immense patrimonium from her father for Marcus.
- ↑ One of the court physicians, who had been utterly wrong in their diagnosis of the illness of Marcus, while Galen had accurately divined it by merely feeling the patient's pulse.
- ↑ Galen was one of the most remarkable men of ancient times.
