Pray for Everyone

Marcus Aurelius, in Section 7 of Book V of Meditations, on praying for everyone:

The form of the Athenians' prayer did run thus: 'O rain, rain, good Jupiter, upon all the grounds and fields that belong to the Athenians.' Either we should not pray at all, or thus absolutely and freely; and not every one for himself in particular alone.

The contrast in this passage is praying for the welfare of oneself versus praying for the benefit of all other farmers in the city. However, when you first read it, not being an Athenian, the mind focuses on that as the controlling category, and it is easy to misinterpret the perspective as praying for the benefit of the political entity to which one belongs to the exclusion of others. A check of other translations shows this latter perspective to be incorrect.