While this increased Antoninus ’ s popularity, the frugal emperor had to debase the Roman currency.

The Antonine Plague was named after Marcus Aurelius ’ family name of Antoninus.

Gregory responded by depriving Peter of both sees, and he wrote to the people of the diocese, reminding them to only elect bishops in accordance with church law, whereupon they elected Antoninus, with Gregory ’ s approval.

Antoninus was adopted by Hadrian on the condition that Verus and Hadrian ’ s great-nephew Marcus Aurelius was to be adopted by Antoninus as his sons and heirs.

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

The Emperor Hadrian sent his ‘ son ’ Antoninus to study under the acclaimed Polemo in Smyrna.

Lucilla ’ s maternal grandparents were Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius and Roman Empress Faustina the Elder and her paternal grandparents were Domitia Lucilla and praetor Marcus Annius Verus.

mention of the settlement can be found in Emperor Antoninus Pius ’ s Itinerarium, Iter Britanniarum ( The Road Routes of Antoninus Augustus ).

Bradua outlived Hadrian ’ s reign and died at an unknown date during the reign of Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius ( 138-161 ).

The family of Antoninus Pius and Faustina the Elder also represents one of the few periods in ancient Roman history where the position of Emperor passed smoothly from father to son.

Severus ' father was an obscure provincial who held no major political status, but he had two cousins, Publius Septimius Aper and Gaius Septimius Severus, who served as consuls under emperor Antoninus Pius.

He married Julia Soaemias, and was the supposed father of Varius Avitus Bassianus, the later Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, better known as Elagabalus.

Several alternate versions appeared in the Bibliotheca, the Fabulae of Hyginus, and the Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis, with major variations depicting Myrrha's father as the Assyrian king Theias or depicting Aphrodite as having engineered the tragic liaison.

Also according to the Augustan History, his wife was a Roman woman called Fabia Orestilla, born circa 165, who the Augustan History claims was a descendant of Roman Emperors Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius through her father Fulvus Antoninus.

According to the notoriously unreliable Historia Augusta, his mother was a Roman woman called Fabia Orestilla, born circa 165, who the Augustan History claims was a descendant of Roman Emperors Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius through her father Fulvus Antoninus.

When his father died in early 138, Hadrian chose Antoninus Pius ( 86 – 161 ) as his successor.

* Aurelius T. f. Fulvus, consul early in the 2nd century, father of the emperor Antoninus Pius.

The Delphic oracle at last declared the cause of her illnesses to be the wrath of the offended goddess ; whereupon her father consented to her marriage with Acontius ( Aristaenetus, Epistolae, i. 10 ; Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses, i, tells the story with different names, see Ctesylla ).

Her father's Roman name was Julius Aurelius Zenobius, with the gentilicium Aurelius showing that his paternal ancestors received Roman citizenship under either Antoninus Pius ( reigned 138 – 161 ), Marcus Aurelius ( reigned 161 – 180 ) or Commodus ( reigned 180 – 192 ).

* Julia Fadilla, younger half-sister to emperor Antoninus Pius and paternal aunt to empress Faustina the Younger

His full nomenclature shows that his grandfather or other ancestor was probably given Roman citizenship by the emperor Antoninus Pius, while proconsul of Asia.

Antoninus Pius (; born 19 September 86AD – died 7 March 161AD ), also known as Antoninus, was Roman Emperor from 138AD to 161AD.

* Marcus Aurelius Fulvus Antoninus ( died before 138 ); his sepulchral inscription has been found at the Mausoleum of Hadrian in Rome.

* Marcus Galerius Aurelius Antoninus ( died before 138 ); his sepulchral inscription has been found at the Mausoleum of Hadrian in Rome.

When Faustina died in 141, Antoninus was greatly distressed.

After the longest reign since Augustus ( surpassing Tiberius by a couple of months ), Antoninus died of fever at Lorium in Etruria, about twelve miles ( 19 km ) from Rome, on 7 March 161, giving the keynote to his life in the last word that he uttered when the tribune of the night-watch came to ask the password —" aequanimitas " ( equanimity ).

Marcus Aurelius Fulvus Antoninus ( died before 138 ), died young without issue

Marcus Galerius Aurelius Antoninus ( died before 138 ), died young without issue

:: D. Titus Aelius Antoninus ( after 150-before 7 March 161 ), died young without issue

::: I. Petronius Antoninus ( after 173-between 190 and 192 ), died young without issue

:: J. Titus Aurelius Fulvus Antoninus ( 161-165 ), died young without issue

Antoninus agreed, and soon afterward Hadrian died at Baiae.

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

Antoninus died on 7 March 161, and was succeeded by Marcus Aurelius.

* Faustina the Elder ( died c. 140 ), Annia Galeria Faustina Major, daughter of Rupilia Faustina and Marcus Annius Verus ; wife of Emperor Antoninus Pius

Denarius of Faustina IAnnia Galeria Faustina, more familiarly referred to as Faustina I ( Latin: Faustina Major ; born on September 21, in about 100 ; died in October or November of 140 ), was a Roman Empress and wife of Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius.

* Marcus Aurelius Fulvius Antoninus ( died before 138 ); his sepulchral inscription has been found at the Mausoleum of Hadrian in Rome.

* Marcus Galerius Aurelius Antoninus ( died before 138 ); his sepulchral inscription has been found at the Mausoleum of Hadrian in Rome.

On July 10, 138, her uncle, Emperor Hadrian, died and her husband became the new emperor, as Antoninus was Hadrian's adopted son and heir.

When Faustina died, Antoninus was in complete mourning for Faustina.

Antoninus made few initial changes when he became emperor, leaving intact as far as possible the arrangements instituted by Hadrian.

The second occupation was probably connected with Antoninus ' undertakings to protect the Votadini or his pride in enlarging the empire, since the retreat to the Hadrianic frontier occurred not long after his death when a more objective strategic assessment of the benefits of the Antonine Wall could be made.

In 138, when Marcus Aurelius was adopted by Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius, Aurelius ended his engagement to Fabia.

In recounting a purported conversation in which the rabbi Judah the Prince, who said the soul ( neshama ) comes into the body when the embryo is already formed, was convinced by Antoninus Pius that it must enter the body at conception, and considered the emperor's view to be supported by, the tractate Sanhedrin of the Talmud mentions two views on the question.

Isadora was a wealthy and beautiful young woman living in Hermopolis during the time when the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius ( AD 138 – 161 ) ruled over Ægyptus.