He also wrote a short account of a tour of inspection of the Black Sea coast in the traditional ' periplus ' form ( in Greek ) addressed to the Emperor Hadrian, the Periplus Ponti Euxini or " Circumnavigation of the Black Sea ".

Here he was persuaded by an acquaintance to return to Rome, for it is generally agreed that he is the Florus who wrote the well-known lines quoted together with Hadrian's answer by Aelius Spartianus ( Hadrian I 6 ).

In that year he wrote to Pope Hadrian I and requested " mosaic, marbles, and other materials from floors and walls " in Rome and Ravenna, for his palace.

Although the historical Hadrian wrote an autobiography, it has been lost.

" He lived into the reign of Hadrian, of which he wrote a history, now lost.

Philo wrote a dictionary of synonyms, a collection of scientific writers and their works organized by category, a catalogue of cities with their famous citizens, and a Vita of the Emperor Hadrian.

He also wrote a treatise on Siege Engines ( Πολιορκητικά ), which was dedicated to Hadrian.

The wife of a certain man wrote to her husband, complaining that he was so preoccupied by pleasures and baths that he would not return home to her, and Hadrian found this out through his private agents.

At the time Sutcliff wrote, it was a plausible theory that the unit had been wiped out in Britain during a period of unrest early in the reign of the emperor Hadrian ( AD 117-138 ).

An ancient scholium ( marginal note ) on a manuscript of Aristides states that the emperor Hadrian, when he was expanding the city wall ( of Athens ), wrote ( inscribed ) at the boundary of the old and the new areas of Athens a double inscription matching the sense, but not the exact wording, of the inscriptions on the arch.

His parents died in 86 when Hadrian was ten, and the boy then became a ward of both Trajan and Publius Acilius Attianus ( who was later Trajan ’ s Praetorian Prefect ).

( Antinoum suum, dum per Nilum navigat, quem muliebriter flevit ) There are various rumours about this person, some asserting that he offered himself as a sacrifice on behalf of Hadrian, others-what both his beauty and Hadrian's excessive pleasure-seeking suggest.

* CCXXIV Olympias Romanorum XII, Hadrianus, regnavit annis XXI-in 224th Olympiad regnal year 2 (= 118CE ) " Hadrian was most erudite in both languages, but also he was not self-controlled enough in his desire for boys " ( Hadrianus eruditissimus fuit in utraque lingua, sed in puerorum amore parum continens fuit.

Theodore and Hadrian established a school in Canterbury, providing instruction in both Greek and Latin, resulting in a " golden age " of Anglo-Saxon scholarship:

The council, held at Chelsea, asserted that Coenwulf did not have the right to make appointments to nunneries and monasteries, although both Leo and his predecessor, Pope Hadrian I, had granted Offa and Coenwulf the right to do so.

There is good evidence of this from emperors like Augustan, Hadrian and Trajan, who all held engineers responsible for both construction and the military.

Later, however, both her bones and those of Geta were transferred by her sister Julia Maesa to the Mausoleum of Hadrian.

The Jewish Encyclopedia article on the Hebrew Alphabet states: " Not until the revolts against Nero and against Hadrian did the Jews return to the use of the old Hebrew script on their coins, which they did from motives similar to those which had governed them two or three centuries previously ; both times, it is true, only for a brief period.

There were two inscriptions on the arch, facing in opposite directions, naming both Theseus and Hadrian as founders of Athens.

Quintus Marcius Turbo was prefect of the Praetorian Guard and a close friend and military advisor to both emperor Trajan and Hadrian during the early 2nd century.

Adrian is a form of the Latin given name Hadrianus ( see Hadrian ).

Aelia Capitolina (; Latin in full: Colonia Aelia Capitolina ) was a city built by the emperor Hadrian, and occupied by a Roman colony, on the site of Jerusalem, which was in ruins since 70 AD, leading in part to the Bar Kokhba revolt of 132 – 136.

It contained in Latin most of the existing imperial constitutiones ( imperial pronouncements having force of law ), back to the time of Hadrian.

Zenobius is also said to have been the author of a Greek translation of the Latin prose author Sallust, which has been lost, and of a birthday poem on the emperor Hadrian.

11 ); since the former were commonplaces, there may be a concealed reference to life under Hadrian, whom Fronto retrospectively claims to have feared rather than loved, but the latter is borne out by the master's remark that there is no Latin equivalent for the Greek philóstorgos, meaning " affectionate ".

Later surely than the reign of Hadrian, but at what time is uncertain, a presumably separate band of martyrs, Sapientia ( Wisdom ) and her three companions, Spes, Fides and Caritas ( Latin for Hope, Faith and Charity ), suffered death and were buried near the tomb of St Cecilia in the cemetery of St. Callistus on the Appian Way.

Quintus Terentius Scaurus, Latin grammarian, flourished during the reign of Hadrian ( Aulus Gellius xi.

In 123 AD, the emperor Hadrian made a key modification to the Latin right.

Hadrian was schooled in various subjects particular to young aristocrats of the day, and was so fond of learning Greek literature that he was nicknamed Graeculus (" Greekling ").

This famous statue of Hadrian in Greek dress was revealed in 2008 to have been forged in the Victorian era by cobbling together a head of Hadrian and an unknown body.

Hadrian had a close relationship with a Bithynian Greek youth, Antinous, which was most likely sexual.

Also all Roman Emperors before Hadrian, except for Nero ( also a great admirer of Greek culture ), were clean shaven.

Their beards, however, were not worn out of an appreciation for Greek culture but because the beard had, thanks to Hadrian, become fashionable.

* 111 – Antinous, Greek youth of Hadrian

In 135 CE, Hadrian is said to have had the Christian site above the Grotto converted into a worship place for Adonis, the Greek pagan god of beauty and desire.

" At an irreducible minimum he was born to a Greek family in Bithynion-Claudiopolis, in the Roman province of Bithynia in what is now north-west Turkey, and joined the entourage of the emperor Hadrian at a young age, although nothing certain is known of how, when, or where he and Hadrian met.

Zenobius was a Greek sophist, who taught rhetoric at Rome during the reign of Emperor Hadrian ( AD 117-138 ).

The last institution commemorating the old Greek poleis was the Panhellenion established by Hadrian.

Edessa was re-occupied, Mannus re-installed .< ref > Birley, " Hadrian to the Antonines ", 163, citing Prosopographia Imperii Romani < sup > 2 </ sup > M 169 .</ ref > His coinage resumed, too: ' Ma ' nu the king ' ( Syriac: M ' NW MLK ') or Antonine dynasts on the obverse, and ' King Mannos, friend of Romans ' ( Greek: Basileus Mannos Philorōmaios ) on the reverse.

Diogenianus was a Greek grammarian from Heraclea in Pontus ( or in Caria ) who flourished during the reign of Hadrian.

This was a period in Rome of widespread imitation of Greek culture, and many other men grew beards in imitation of Hadrian and the Greek fashion.

Phlegon of Tralles () was a Greek writer and freedman of the emperor Hadrian, who lived in the 2nd century AD.

Under the Seleucid Empire, the city took the name of Seleucia on the Pyramus ( classical Greek: Σελεύκεια πρὸς τὸν Πύραμον, Seleukeia pros ton Pyramon ; ), but gave it up at the time of the Roman conquest ; under Hadrian it was called Hadriana, under Decius Decia, etc., as we know from the inscriptions and the coins of the city.

Pausanias (; Ancient Greek: Pausanías ) was a Greek traveler and geographer of the 2nd century AD, who lived in the times of Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius.