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Marius the Epicurean
Volume One

CHAPTER IX: NEW CYRENAICISM
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Definition "a looking at ...
observing ...

contemplation." 154.

+Transliteration: monochronos hedone.

Pater's definition "the pleasure of the ideal present, of the mystic now." The definition is fitting; the unusual adjective monokhronos means, literally, "single or unitary time." 155.

+Horace, Ars Poetica 311.


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