GLOSSARY OF GREEK TERMS
V. 1; συγκατατήκεσθαι V. 1; συμμηρύεσθαι III. 11; VII. 23; συμμήρυσις IV. 40; συμπεριφαντάζεσθαι X. 38; συμπροσπίπτειν VII. 22; X. 31; XII. 27; συνεμφέρειν III. 4; συννήθειν (?) IV. 34; τριγερήνιος, IV. 50; ὑπέρτασις, Χ. 8; φαντασιοπλήκτως, Ι. 7; χυλάριον vi. 13
ἀπροαίρετα, things not in our choice or power, XII. 3, 23, 33
ἀρχαί, Zeno recognized θεὸς (τὸ ποιοὖν) and ὕλη (τὸ πάσχον) as ἀρχαὶ or Beginnings
ἀταραξία (cp. ἀπάθεια) IΧ. 31, freedom from perturbation at external things
ἄτομοι, ΙV. 3; VI. 24; VI. 32, 50; VIII. 17; IX. 28, 39; x. 6; XI. 18. Indivisible atoms endowed with motion were, according to Democritus, and after him Epicurus and Lucretius, the origin of all things without any First Cause. Marcus often puts this view, but only to reject it
ἀφορμή = means. Marcus does not use the word in its Stoic sense of “disinclination” )( ὁρμή
δαίμων, evil spirit, I. 6; good, x.13; εὐδαιμονία, vii. 17; the "genius" or "daemon" within us, II. 13, 17 ; III. 6, 7, 12, 16; VIII. 45; XII. 3; given by Zeus to us, v. 27; θεός, V. 10 ; = νοῦς, III. 3
διάλυσις, VII. 50, etc., a breaking up of things into their component parts, and the subsequent sifting out of these into the elements
διάνοια, faculty of thought, or mind, IIΙ. 1; = λογικὴ ψυχή, vi. 32; not affected by the motions of the πνεῦμα, IV. 3
διαπνεῖσθαι, to breathe through the veins and arteries, a medical theory (see Gataker in loc. for illustrations from Galen), III. 1; VI. 16
δόγμα, a postulate, axiom, or principle established by reason and experience; what the sensations are to the body and impulses to the soul, δόγματα are to the intelligence, III. 16; called "sacred," X. 9. See κρῖμα and θεώρημα
εἶδος, only used once (XI. 20) in its philosophical sense of “general term," "class," or "species"
εἱμαρμένη, ἡ, destiny, III. 6; v. 8, etc.; = Clotho, IV. 34; τὰ συγκλωθόμενα, IIΙ. 4, 11, 16; IV. 26; ἡ πεπρωμένη, III. 8; τὸ συμβαῖνον, IV. 44 etc.
ἔκκλισις, avoidance )( ὄρεξις (q.v.), VIII. 7; XI. 37. The things that are “within the man” are κρίσις judgment, ὁρμὴ impulse, ὄρεξις propension towards, ἔκκλισις aversion from, a thing, VIII. 28; but the latter must be reserved only for things in our power, VIII. 7; XI. 37
ἐκπύρωσις, cyclical confagration of the Universe, a doctrine of Heraclitus (q.v.), III. 3. Justin Apol. ii. 7 points out the difference between the Stoic and Christian view of this conflagration (2 St. Peter iii. 7, 10)
ἔννοια, conception, thought, or notion not amounting to a conviction (δόγμα), but κοινὴ ἔννοια = φαντασία καταληπτική, a conclusive conviction. See πρόληψις
ἐξαγωγή = suicide does not occur, but see III. 1 (ἐξακτέον)
ἕξις, VI. 14; VII. 16; XI. 18; XII. 16. Lucian, Conviv. 23, says, τί διαφέρει σχέσις ἕξεως ; and in Hermot. 81 he laughs at the jargon of philosophy with its ἕξεις and σχέσεις, its καταλήψεις and φαντασίαι. Σχέσις, feature; ἕξις, a simple essential form or quality (ποιότης); φύσις, a forming power, VI. 14
εὐδαιμονία, harmony of man’s will (δαίμων) with God's = εὔροια βίου, VII. 17
εύρους, εὐροεῖν (εὔροια, Epict. i. 4. 6), the calm even flow of the virtuous life = εὐοδεῖν, V. 34; x. 6; even of Zeus himself, v. 8; εὕρουν καὶ θεουδῆ βίον, ΙΙ. 5
ἐνέργεια, the activity of the ψυχὴ contrasted with πεῖσις (q.v.) = the passivity of the body, v. 20, etc.
ἡγεμονικόν, τό (or τὸ κυριεῦον, τὸ προαιρετικόν, VIII. 56), the Ruling
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