By David Magie
The Scriptores Historiae Augustae, or Historia Augusta, is a suite of biographies of Roman emperors, heirs, and claimants from Hadrian to Numerianus (117– 284 CE). The paintings, that is modeled on Suetonius, purports to be written via six varied authors and charges records and public files commonly. due to the fact we own no non-stop account of the emperors of the second one and 3rd centuries, the Historia Augusta has clearly attracted prepared recognition. within the final century it has additionally generated the gravest suspicions. current opinion holds that the full is the paintings of a unmarried writer (who lived for the period of Theodosius) and comprises a lot that's plagiarism or even downright forgery. The Loeb Classical Library variation of the Historia Augusta is in 3 volumes.
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Hadrian is 5 Of. c. 6 The appointment ii. 10. as legate refers to his governorship of see 6. Syria 7 A. Platorius Nepos was prominent under Trajan as a magistrate at Rome and the governor of several important provinces and was consul with Hadrian in 119. He afterward incurred Hadrian's enmity see c. xv. 2 ; xxiii. 4. ; ; 11 HADRIAN autem Attiani, tutoris 3Turbonis. et Celso, 4 5 in quondam sui, et Liviani et venit adoptionis sponsionem inimicis semper l Palma suis et quos postea ipse 2 adfectatae insecutus est, in suspicionem tyrannidis totam factus Plotinae favore secundo consul lapsis.
Thus in his letter de Militia Veterum^ he cites the Hadrian, the Pescennius, the and Avidius Cassius, the Maximini, and the Probus 3 he quotes in the de Re Publica bene admiiustranda from the Hadrian, the Avidius Cassius, the Elagaba/us, the Alexander, and the Aure/ian. After the death of Petrarch, the Fulda Codex, it has been maintained, came into the possession of Coluccio Salutati, 4 and many of the marginal correcOn the tions which it bears are said to be his. other hand, it has been asserted with equal vigour 5 that Coluccio did not even see this manuscript.
X. 6; xxv. 6; xxvi. 13; xxix. 4. Also called cursus vehiculariut (Pius, xii. 3), and munus xiv. 2). Previous to Hadrian's reform the cost of the maintenance of the post had fallen on the provinThe cial towns, but henceforth it was borne bythe_/zscws. of direction of an official the equestrian department was under rank, known as the praefectus vehicularurn. 6 The sum remitted was 900,000,000 sesterces; see coins 4 vehicularium (Sev. 22 HADRIAN VII. 4-7 the command in Dacia to Turbo, whom he dignified, in order to increase his authority, with a rank analogous He then hastened to that of the prefect of Egypt.