The George Long translation of 1862:
If a man reflects on the changes and transformations which follow one another like wave after wave and their rapidity, he will despise everything which is perishable. Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Book 9.
Chrystal's 2017 rendering based on the Foulis translation of 1742:
If any one considers how swiftly changes and transmutations roll on, like one wave upon another, he will despise all things mortal. Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Book 9.
Image: Plastered adult male skull with cowrie shells inserted in eye sockets from Jericho thought to have been used in cultic ancestor worship rituals around 7000 BCE, that I photographed at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, UK.
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