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Strona 31
... Adrian for a successor , to which measure Trajan had manifested an aversion ; and it is said that she practised a gross fraud for this purpose . Trajan died in the sixty - fourth year of his age , after a reign of nineteen years and a ...
... Adrian for a successor , to which measure Trajan had manifested an aversion ; and it is said that she practised a gross fraud for this purpose . Trajan died in the sixty - fourth year of his age , after a reign of nineteen years and a ...
Strona 32
... ADRIAN , the fifteenth emperor of Rome . He was born at Rome , A.D. 76 , and left an orphan at ten years of age , under the guardianship of Trajan , and Coelius Tatianus , a Roman knight . He began to serve very early in the armies ...
... ADRIAN , the fifteenth emperor of Rome . He was born at Rome , A.D. 76 , and left an orphan at ten years of age , under the guardianship of Trajan , and Coelius Tatianus , a Roman knight . He began to serve very early in the armies ...
Strona 33
... Adrian , by means of Plotina , the wife of Trajan . She is celebrated for her private as well as public virtues . Adrian treated her with the greatest asperity , though he had received from her the im- perial purple , and the empress ...
... Adrian , by means of Plotina , the wife of Trajan . She is celebrated for her private as well as public virtues . Adrian treated her with the greatest asperity , though he had received from her the im- perial purple , and the empress ...
Strona 34
... Adrian to be one of the four con- sulars between whom the supreme magistracy of Italy was di- vided . In his turn he became proconsul of Asia , in which high trust he acquired a reputation even surpassing that of his grand- father ...
... Adrian to be one of the four con- sulars between whom the supreme magistracy of Italy was di- vided . In his turn he became proconsul of Asia , in which high trust he acquired a reputation even surpassing that of his grand- father ...
Strona 35
... Adrian , from the mouth of the Esk , to that of the Tweed . He was not only frugal of the revenue , but looked upon his own possessions as the property of the state . His wife , Faustina , reproaching him with lavishing his patrimony ...
... Adrian , from the mouth of the Esk , to that of the Tweed . He was not only frugal of the revenue , but looked upon his own possessions as the property of the state . His wife , Faustina , reproaching him with lavishing his patrimony ...
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