If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
ἔδοξε δὲ καὶ τοὺς στρατηγοὺς δίκην ὑποσχεῖν τοῦ παρεληλυθότος χρόνου. – “It was further resolved that the generals themselves should undergo a judicial examination in reference to their conduct in past time.”
ὅτῳ δοκεῖ ταῦτα, ἀνατεινάτω τὴν χεῖρα. ἔδοξε ταῦτα. νῦν τοίνυν, ἔφη, ἀπιόντας ποιεῖν δεῖ τὰ δεδογμένα. - “Those in favour of this resolution, hold up their hands.” The resolution was carried. “And now,” said he, “it would be well to separate and carry out what we have decreed.”
σπείσας δʼ εὐθὺς ἦγε τοὺς νεανίσκους παρὰ τὸν Χειρίσοφον, καὶ διηγοῦνται ταὐτά - “having poured the libation he took the young men straight to Cheirisophus, and they told the same story”
οὐκ ἄβατόν ἐστι τὸ ὄρος, ἀλλὰ νέμεται αἰξὶ καὶ βουσίν - “the mountain is not impassable, but is grazed by goats and cattle”
ὁ δʼ ἑρμηνεὺς εἶπε περσιστὶ ὅτι παρὰ βασιλέως πορεύονται πρὸς τὸν σατράπην - “the interpreter said, in Persian, that they were on their way from the King to the satrap”
ἔστησαν ἀγνοοῦντες εἰ διαβατέον εἴη τὸ νάπος - “they halted, not knowing whether the glen had to be crossed”
ἐντεῦθεν ἐξελαύνει σταθμοὺς τρεῖς παρασάγγας πεντεκαίδεκα ἐπὶ τὸν Εὐφράτην ποταμόν, ὄντα τὸ εὖρος τεττάρων σταδίων· - “From there he marches three stages, fifteen parasangs, to the river Euphrates, which is four stades in width.”
Thálatta! Thálatta! The Sea! The Sea!