Unlike the preceding Emperors Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius, he seems to have had little interest in the business of administration and tended throughout his reign to leave the practical running of the state to a succession of favourites, beginning at this time with Saoterus, a freedman from Nicomedia who had become his chamberlain.

He acquired much favor with the Emperor Hadrian, who adopted him as his son and successor on 25 February 138, after the death of his first adopted son Lucius Aelius, on the condition that Antoninus would in turn adopt Marcus Annius Verus, the son of his wife's brother, and Lucius, son of Aelius Verus, who afterwards became the emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.

Aurelius Ambrosius, better known in English as Saint Ambrose ( c. 330 – 4 April 397 ), was an archbishop of Milan who became one of the most influential ecclesiastical figures of the 4th century.

Ambrosius Aurelianus, ; called Aurelius Ambrosius in the Historia Regum Britanniae and elsewhere, was a war leader of the Romano-British who won an important battle against the Anglo-Saxons in the 5th century, according to Gildas.

Aurelius, " who showed moderation in all his conduct ," arranged for Hengist to be buried and a mound be raised over his corpse " according to the custom of pagans.

They were mentioned by Julius Caesar in his treatise, The Gallic Wars, and by 391 BC, they were written about by Roman Consul, Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, who received seven of them, " canes Scotici ", as a gift to be used for fighting lions, bears, that in his words, " all Rome viewed with wonder ".

The Urban Prefect Aurelius Anicius Symmachus warned both parties to keep the peace, and wrote to the Emperor Honorius that Eulalius, who had been elected first and in due order, was in the right.

However, it appears that some contemporary and later writers, such as the Christian author Lactantius, and Sextus Aurelius Victor ( who wrote about fifty years later and from uncertain sources ), misunderstood the Tetrarchic system in this respect, believing it to have involved a stricter division of territories between the four emperors.

They send his head to Aurelius, who persuades the Senate to pardon Cassius's family.

* March 7 – Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by Marcus Aurelius who shares imperial power with Lucius Verus, although Marcus retains the title Pontifex Maximus.

Aurelian was born in Serdica ( today Sofia in Bulgaria ) in Moesia or what was later called Dacia Ripensis to an obscure provincial family ; his father was tenant to a senator named Aurelius, who gave his name to the family.

* June 11 – Emperor Marcus Aurelius begins a campaign against the Quadi, who had broken the peace treaty ( 171 ).

Commodus had an elder twin brother, Titus Aurelius Fulvus Antoninus, who died in 165.

Marcus Aurelius was the first emperor since Vespasian to have a son of his own and, though he himself was the fifth in the line of the so-called Five Good Emperors who had each adopted their successor, it seems to have been his firm intention that Commodus should be his heir.

The first is a dedication to Aurelius Heraclianus, the prefect involved in the conspiracy against Gallienus, from Traianus Mucianus, who also gave a dedication to Heraclianus ' brother, Aurelius Appollinaris, who was the equestiran governor of the province of Thracia in 267-8 AD.

Pannonia Superior was under the consular legate, who had formerly administered the single province, and had three legions under his control ; Pannonia Inferior at first under a praetorian legate with a single legion as garrison, after Marcus Aurelius under a consular legate, still with only one legion.

Some of the main philosophers who have dealt with this issue are Marcus Aurelius, Omar Khayyám, Thomas Hobbes, Baruch Spinoza, Gottfried Leibniz, David Hume, Baron d ' Holbach ( Paul Heinrich Dietrich ), Pierre-Simon Laplace, Arthur Schopenhauer, William James, Friedrich Nietzsche, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Ralph Waldo Emerson and, more recently, John Searle, Ted Honderich, and Daniel Dennett.

Ιν 268, τhe Alamanni, who had been making incursions into Roman territory since the reign of Marcus Aurelius, had broken through the Roman frontier at the Danube and crossed the Alps, when the power struggles around Mediolanum ( Aureolus ' revolt, murder of Gallienus, confrontation between Aureolus and Claudius ) forced the Romans to denude the frontier of troops.

# The settlement was named by the Spanish after the celebrated Roman jurist Volusio, who wrote 30 books and tutored Marcus Aurelius, the Roman emperor and philosopher.

The cult statue was brought to Rome by the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, who before his accession was the hereditary high priest at Emesa and is commonly called Elagabalus after the deity.

The original statue was set up by an Aurelius Cotta who had supervised the installation of new pavement in the Forum at the end of the 80s BC.

He had Michelangelo relocate the ancient bronze of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius to the Capitoline Hill, where it became the centerpiece to the Piazza del Campidoglio.

He became a popular emperor, Quintus Aurelius Symmachus delivered a panegyric on Maximus ' virtues.

Already perhaps he had a basic knowledge of Greek, for, it is said by Plutarch, that, while at Tarentum in his youth, he became in close friendship with Nearchus, a Greek philosopher, and it is said by Aurelius Victor that while praetor in Sardinia, he received instruction in Greek from Ennius.

Verus started his political career as a quaestor in 153, became consul in 154, and in 161 was consul again with Marcus Aurelius as his senior partner.

Marcus became, in official titulature, Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus ; Lucius, forgoing his name Commodus and taking Marcus ' family name, Verus, became Imperator Caesar Lucius Aurelius Verus Augustus.

Apart from the practical advantages it offered, the design also became closely associated with imperial power, being later adopted by Trajan's successors Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius.

Shortly after this, in 74, he became consul ( along with Marcus Aurelius Cotta, Julius Caesar's uncle ), and defended Sulla's constitution from the efforts of Lucius Quinctius.

Aurelius became engaged to Antoninus Pius ’ daughter Faustina the Younger, whom he later married.

After the death of Aurelius he became the private secretary of Commodus.

Hence a knowledge of law became a qualification for the post, which under Marcus Aurelius and Commodus, but especially from the time of Severus, was held by the first jurists of the age, ( e. g. Papinian, Ulpian, Paullus ) and John the Cappadocian, while the military qualification fell more and more into the background.

From the remains of an inscription reading … I ANTONINI AUG. on a cornice block which can still be seen at the site, we learn that the tholos belongs to the period of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus ( Caracalla ) who became Augustus in 198 and died in 217.

Antoninus legally adopted Marcus Annius Verus and Lucius Ceionius Commodus, who thereby became members of the Aurelia gens, under the names Marcus Aurelius Antoninus and Lucius Aurelius Verus.

Jiaozhi and Rinan commanderies in what is now northern Vietnam became the main point of entry to China from countries to the west as far away as the Roman Empire, as recorded in the Hou Hanshu: < p >" In the ninth Yanxi year Common Era | CE, during the reign of Emperor Huan, the king of Da Qin Roman Empire, Andun ( Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, r. 161-180 ), sent envoys from beyond the frontiers through Rinan.

In his time, Galen's reputation as both physician and philosopher was legendary, the Emperor Marcus Aurelius describing him as " Primum sane medicorum esse, philosophorum autem solum " ( first among doctors and unique among philosophers Praen 14: 660 ).

In the reign of Marcus Aurelius, after disputing with the cynic philosopher Crescens he was denounced by the latter to the authorities, according to Tatian ( Address to the Greeks 19 ) and Eusebius ( HE IV 16. 7-8 ).

Among the best known Roman Stoics were philosopher Seneca and the emperor Marcus Aurelius.

At the age of seven, his name was changed to Marcus Aurelius Septimius Bassianus Antoninus to create a connection to the family of the philosopher emperor Marcus Aurelius.

Idealizing Marcus Aurelius, Romanos aspired to be a new " philosopher king ", and similarly desired to imitate the military prowess of Trajan.

* Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus ( 121 – 180 AD, stoic philosopher, Emperor in Latin, essayist in ancient Greek, role model of the last generation of classicists ( Cruttwell )

The Embassy for the Christians, the date of which is fixed by internal evidence as late in 176 or 177, was a carefully written plea for justice to the Christians made by a philosopher, on philosophical grounds, to the Emperors Marcus Aurelius and his son Commodus, whom he flatters as conquerors, " but above all, philosophers ".

Livius has close connections with the imperial family, being the lover of Aurelius ' philosopher daughter Lucilla and a friend of her brother Commodus.

In many respects he reminds us of the imperial philosopher Marcus Aurelius, whose works he studied with avidity, and whose influence is stamped upon his own productions.

In the early years of the common era, philosopher and physician Aurelius Cornelius Celsus first recorded the treatment of teeth by finger pressure.

* Aurelius Clemens Prudentius, a jurist, poet, and Christian philosopher of the late fourth and early 5th century.

The earliest " endowed chairs " were those established by the Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius in Athens in AD 176.