File:Harley MS 5694 Lucian Pro Imaginibus Scholia by Arethas from the British Library.png

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English: An image from Harley MS 5694. a codex from the British Library's Digitalised Manuscript Collection. It shows a comment on Lucian of Samosata attributed to Arethas of Caesarea (c.900). Arethas' are the earliest direct references to the work of Marcus Aurelius commonly known as "Meditions". Or, as Arethas calls it, his writing "to himself" (εις εαυτον ΄Ηθικοις).
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Source Harley MS 5694, part of the Digitised Manuscript Collection made available online by the British Library.
Author The original text is from Lucian of Samosata (2nd c;). The Scholia is attributed to Arethas of Caesarea (c.900). The manuscript is one of 7000 acquired from the family of the 2nd Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, Edward Harley in 1753. Scanned by InformationvsInjustice 12/22/2016.

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