William O. Stephens
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 3d ago
William O. Stephens’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Right.
That suggests to me that Marcus was okay with the idea of other people reading these notes after he was dead.
And then they were copied, and they were copied and they were copied over and over and over again.
And they survived.
to be handed down to us.
And so I I I really think that, you know, Marcus expresses at times a real world weariness in the memoranda.
He said, enough with this monkey life, right?
I've lived long enough.
There, there's some dark moments.
The last passage
You know, he's got his affairs in order.
He's made Commodus co-emperor.
They've celebrated triumphs together, you know, after some successful battles along the Danube.
Um, and you know, he 59, he makes it almost to age and like a month short of 59, right?
And so he's not dying as a young man by the standards of antiquity.
Sure.
But with the plague and
His health problems, yeah.
That was it.
And uh his wife has already died, right?
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