J. P. Postgate
Published: 2017-07-17
Total Pages: 348
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Excerpt from The Classical Quarterly, Vol. 2: January 1908 The account, then, derived from Dion, an almost contemporary source, never applies the name Verus to the elder Lucius, and first ascribes that name to the younger when, after fire deat/c of Pius, he is taken as son of Lucius Commodus to be colleague of Marcus. On the other hand the name of Marcus, hitherto Marcus Verus or Marcus Annius Verus, changes with his accession to Marcus Antoninus. Nothing is said of any relationship between Hadrian and Lucius the elder, in fact we are expressly told that Servianus (a natural Claimant on behalf of his own grandson) was indignant and that Lucius was chosen 'out of all' as a man after Hadrian's own heart. It is an error that Pius was without male issue, ' and that Marcus was related to Hadrian (if that is what the historian means), but this mistake seems to be due to the abridgment; probably what Dion said was that Pius preferred to honour his own kinsman, for such an account would agree with what is elsewhere stated of the prejudice he bore towards the young Lucius. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.