This wealth was shown by the many monuments that were particularly imposing considering the relatively small size of the urban area: the forum, laid out in two terraces on both sides of the main road, was constructed in several phases between the reigns of Claudius and Antoninus Pius, and the theatre was enlarged and expanded in order to hold Roman games.

Aeternitas was among the many virtues depicted on coinage issued under Vespasian, Titus, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Septimius Severus.

It possessed many other temples, repaired by Antoninus Pius, who was born close by, as was also Commodus.

The neighborhood, which is now covered with vineyards, contains remains of many Roman villas, one of which is traditionally attributed to the Emperor Antoninus Pius.

St. Antoninus, Vincent of Beauvais, Sigebert, Peter of Cluny, Prospero Fagnani and many others tell us that the canonical order traces back its origin to the earliest ages of the Church.

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

Antoninus ’ father and paternal grandfather died when he was young and he was raised by Gnaeus Arrius Antoninus, his maternal grandfather, reputed by contemporaries to be a man of integrity and culture and a friend of Pliny the Younger.

When Faustina died in 141, Antoninus was greatly distressed.

It was however in Britain that Antoninus decided to follow a new, more aggressive path, with the appointment of a new governor in 139, Quintus Lollius Urbicus.

Nevertheless, Antoninus was virtually unique among emperors in that he dealt with these crises without leaving Italy once during his reign, but instead dealt with provincial matters of war and peace through their governors or through imperial letters to the cities such as Ephesus ( of which some were publicly displayed ).

His body was placed in Hadrian's mausoleum, a column was dedicated to him on the Campus Martius, and the temple he had built in the Forum in 141 to his deified wife Faustina was rededicated to the deified Faustina and the deified Antoninus.

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

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

In the reign of Antoninus Pius ( 138-161 ) the Hadrianic border was briefly extended north to the Forth-Clyde isthmus, where the Antonine Wall was built around 142 following the military reoccupation of the Scottish lowlands by a new governor, Quintus Lollius Urbicus.

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.

Macrinus now sent letters to the Senate denouncing Elagabalus as the False Antoninus and claiming he was insane.

The Dialogue is a later work than the First Apology ; the date of composition of the latter, from the fact that it was addressed to Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius, and Lucius Verus his adopted sons, must fall between 147 and 161.

One of these springs was upon the Muses ' Mount Helicon, the Hippocrene (" horse spring "), opened, Antoninus Liberalis suggested, at the behest of Poseidon to prevent the mountain swelling with rapture at the song of the Muses ; another was at Troezen.

Although only one of his four children survived to adulthood, Antoninus came to be ancestor to generations of prominent Roman statesmen and socialites, including at least one empress consort.

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.

The legends of Saint Antoninus and others across northern Italy can only be explained as being of individuals left behind for various reasons in the passage of the legion.

However, it was only under Hadrian's successor Antoninus Pius that relations improved to the extent that Pharsman is said to have even visited Rome, where Dio Cassius reports that a statue was erected in his honor and that rights to sacrifice were given.

Under Antoninus Pius, however, oppressive taxation led to a revolt in 139, of the native Egyptians, which was suppressed only after several years of fighting.

However, under Antoninus Pius, citizenship was no longer granted to the children of rank-and-file veterans, the privilege becoming restricted only to officers.

Although in Syria, Asia Minor and Tunisia the Romans occasionally raised the columns of their temples or propylaea on square pedestals, in Rome itself they were employed only to give greater importance to isolated columns, such as those of Trajan and Antoninus, or as a podium to the columns employed decoratively in the Roman triumphal arches.

Although its title corresponds to that given by the Armenian fragment and by Eusebius, it begins with a formal inscription to the emperor Titus Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius ; and Dr. Rendel Harris is followed by Adolf von Harnack and others in supposing that it was only through a careless reading of this inscription that the work was supposed to have been addressed to Hadrian.

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

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 ).

by H. Bengtson, Stuttgart 1954 that the reign of Antoninus comprised " a succession of grossly wasted opportunities ," given the upheavals that were to come.

* Emperor Antoninus Pius starts a new war against the Parthians who are led by Vologases IV.

* 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.

In the same year, Pertinax unmasked a conspiracy by two enemies of Cleander — Antistius Burrus ( one of Commodus's brothers-in-law ) and Arrius Antoninus.

The Constitutio Antoniniana ( Latin: " Constitution Edict of Antoninus ") ( also called Edict of Caracalla ) was an edict issued in 212 by Caracalla which declared that all free men in the Roman Empire were to be given full Roman citizenship and all free women in the Empire were given the same rights as Roman women.

There is no reference of the Sudarium for the first several hundred years after the Crucifixion of Jesus, until its mention in 570 in an account by Antoninus of Piacenza, who writes that the Sudarium is being cared for in a cave near the monastery of Saint Mark, in the vicinity of Jerusalem.

Outside the town, in Santa Maria Capua Vetere, there is the amphitheatre, built in the time of Augustus, restored by Hadrian and dedicated by Antoninus Pius, as the inscription over the main entrance recorded.

Under Nerva's later dynastic successor Antoninus Pius, Imperial theology represents the death and apotheosis of the Empress Faustina the Elder as Ceres ' return to Olympus by Jupiter's command.

A similar tale is told by Antoninus Liberalis, although he names the maiden Arsinoe, and her lover Arceophon.

In the Metamorphoses by Antoninus Liberalis, written somewhere in the 2nd or 3rd century A. D., the myth is set in Phoenicia, near Mount Lebanon.

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.

* 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 )

In this novel Yourcenar recreated the life and death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world, the Roman Emperor Hadrian, who writes a long letter to Marcus Aurelius, the son and heir of Antoninus Pius, his successor and adoptive son.

Its use has also been traced through the Egyptians to the ancient Greeks and Romans, representations of Trajan ( arch of Constantine ) and Antoninus Pius ( reverse of a medal ) being found with it.

The name was given to it because an ancient Roman document called the Historia Augusta ( of generally low reliability ) refers to silver coins named after an Antoninus on several occasions ( several Roman emperors in the late second and early third centuries bore this name among others ).

For example, it is the sole ancient authority for the construction of the Antonine Wall in Scotland during the reign of Antoninus Pius.

* The Roman Odeon, the most significant ancient monument, is situated in the upper town and was built around 160 AD, during the reign of either Antoninus Pius or Marcus Aurelius.

These included the Tebtunis Archive of ancient papyri, excavated by an Egyptian expedition funded by Phoebe Apperson Hearst in 1899-1900 and the largest such collection in the Western Hemisphere ; the papers of Mark Twain, the object of the Mark Twain Project, which since 1965 has been editing everything written by him ; a large collection of medieval manuscripts, incunabula, and rare printed books from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries ; and the literary manuscripts of such California writers as Ina Coolbrith, California's first poet laureate, George Sterling, figures associated with the Beat Generation in San Francisco, such as Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Philip Lamantia, Philip Whalen, and William Everson ( Brother Antoninus ), and contemporary authors such as John Mortimer, Sean O ' Faolain, Maxine Hong Kingston and Joan Didion.

Of the ancient harbour constructed by Antoninus Pius insignificant remains exist, and it is largely silted up.

* Antoninus Liberalis, an ancient Greek grammarian who lived between the first and third centuries AD