The ancient world, from the earliest times to 800 AD . oul of mine, pretty one, flitting one,Guest and partner of my wilt thou hie away,Pallid one, rigid one, naked one, —Never to play again, never to play ? 1 i f? . t imkaMfc M P iJBlfflHlBlttl T ?•?yf^ff^i^^f^f - . m mSMaiimmmm-^^^mi^^^^. ^^M ?Hip WPf^^tKBB/M ??PI iti \ «~^„»vr*-& w ^•IMWli ~J \ 1 lte?^2c„^.,. **W«T 1 The Tomb of Hadrian, 588. Antoninus Pius, 138-161 , who had been adopted byHadrian, was his successor. His reign was singularly peacefuland uneventful, and might well have given rise to the saying,Happy the peo
The ancient world, from the earliest times to 800 AD . oul of mine, pretty one, flitting one,Guest and partner of my wilt thou hie away,Pallid one, rigid one, naked one, —Never to play again, never to play ? 1 i f? . t imkaMfc M P iJBlfflHlBlttl T ?•?yf^ff^i^^f^f - . m mSMaiimmmm-^^^mi^^^^. ^^M ?Hip WPf^^tKBB/M ??PI iti \ «~^„»vr*-& w ^•IMWli ~J \ 1 lte?^2c„^.,. **W«T 1 The Tomb of Hadrian, 588. Antoninus Pius, 138-161 , who had been adopted byHadrian, was his successor. His reign was singularly peacefuland uneventful, and might well have given rise to the saying,Happy the people whose annals are meager. Antoninushimsslf was a pure and gentle spirito The chief feature of 478 THE ROMAN EMPIRE 58S his rule was legislation to prevent cruelty to slaves and to lessensuffering. On the evening of his death, when asked by the officer ofthe guard for the watchword for the night, he gave the wordEquanimity, which might have served as the motto of hislife. His adopted son wrote of him : He was ever prudent. Marcus Aurelius. §590] AUGUSTUS TO AURELIUS 479 and temperate. ... He looked to his duty, and not to theopinion of men. . There was in his life nothing harsh,nothing excessive, nothing overdone. (Davis Readings, II,No. 69, gives two pages of this noble tribute.) 589. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (i6i-i8o), nephew andadopted son of Antoninus Pius, was the next emperor. He wasa philosopher and student. He belonged to the Stoic school(§ 317), but in him that stern philosophy, without losing itslofty tone, was softened by a gracious gentleness. His Thoughts(§ 628) is one of the worlds noblest books, deeply religious, andcloser to the spirit of Christ than any other writing of thepagan world. The tastes of Marcus Aurelius made him wish to continuein his fathers footsteps, but he had fallen upon harsher barbarians renewed their attacks upon the Danube, theRhine, and the Euphrates. The Emperor and his lieutenantsbeat them back, but at the co
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