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Marcus Aurelius

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Verissimus Denen Çocuk

The Boy Called Verissimus

Marcus Aurelius, İsa’dan sonra 121 yılında Roma’da doğdu. Ailesi köklü ve zengindi. En başından beri ciddi, sakin bir çocuktu. Çocukken bile oyunlardan çok tek bir şeyi sevdi: İyi bir insan olmayı öğrenmek.

Marcus Aurelius was born in Rome in the year 121 after Christ. His family was old and rich, and from the beginning he was a serious, calm child. Even as a boy he loved one thing more than games: to learn how to be good.

O dönemin imparatoru Hadrianus onu fark etti ve ona bir lakap taktı: “En doğru” anlamına gelen Verissimus. Bu bir şaka gibi gelebilir, ama Hadrianus ciddiydi. Çocukta nadir bulunan bir dürüstlük gördü.

The emperor of that time, Hadrian, noticed him and gave him a nickname: Verissimus, which means “the most true”. It sounds like a joke, but Hadrian was serious. He saw in the boy a rare honesty.

Daha sonra defterinde, kendisini var eden insanlar hakkında yazdı. Büyükbabasından öfkesini kontrol etmeyi öğrendi. Babasının hatırasından alçakgönüllü olmayı öğrendi. Annesinden ise cömertçe vermeyi ve sade yaşamayı öğrendi. Kendi iyi karakterini kendisinin yarattığına inanmıyordu. İçindeki her iyi şeyin başkasından geldiğini düşünüyordu ve minnettardı.

In the notebook he later wrote about the people who made him who he was. From his grandfather he learned to control his temper. From the memory of his father, to be modest. From his mother, to give freely and to live simply. He did not believe that he had invented his own good character. He thought that every good thing in him had come from someone else, and he was grateful.

Hadrianus, çocuğun Antoninus Pius tarafından evlat edinilmesini sağladı. Antoninus, bir sonraki imparator olan iyi ve nazik bir adamdı. Böylece Marcus, bir gün bütün Roma dünyasını yöneteceğini bilerek büyüdü.

Hadrian arranged for the boy to be adopted by Antoninus Pius, a good and gentle man who became the next emperor. So Marcus grew up knowing that one day he would rule the whole Roman world.

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