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en-wikipedia-org-7958		Junius Rusticus - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	1135	161	58	According to Themistius, a 4th-century Roman philosopher and orator, Hadrian, Antoninus, and Marcus Aurelius "pulled Arrian and Rusticus away from their books, refusing to let them be mere pen-and-ink philosophers" and escorted them from the study of Stoic philosophy "to the general's tent as well as to the speaker's platform."[1] Themistius lumps Arrian and Rusticus together in recounting their military achievements: [Marcus] received most instruction from Junius Rusticus, whom he ever revered and whose disciple he became, a man esteemed in both private and public life, and exceedingly well acquainted with the Stoic system, with whom Marcus shared all his counsels both public and private, whom he greeted with a kiss prior to the prefects of the guard, whom he even appointed consul for a second term, and whom after his death he asked the senate to honour with statues.[2] Marcus also explains how it was from Rusticus that he first came to read the works of Epictetus:	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7958.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7958.txt