id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1933 Meditations - Wikipedia .html text/html 5642 679 74 860–935), a bishop who was a great collector of manuscripts.[9] At some date before 907 he sent a volume of the Meditations to Demetrius, Archbishop of Heracleia, with a letter saying: "I have had for some time an old copy of the Emperor Marcus' most profitable book, so old indeed that it is altogether falling to pieces.… This I have had copied and am able to hand down to posterity in its new dress."[10] Arethas also mentions the work in marginal notes (scholia) to books by Lucian and Dio Chrysostom where he refers to passages in the "Treatise to Himself" (Greek: τὰ εἰς ἑαυτὸν ἠθικά), and it was this title which the book bore in the manuscript from which the first printed edition was made in the 16th century.[11][12] Arethas' own copy has now vanished, but it is thought to be the likely ancestor of the surviving manuscripts.[10] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1933.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1933.txt