SUMMARY Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus succeeded to power together in 161 CE, as the adopted heirs of Antonius Pius. At the start of their reign, Verus conducted a successful war against the ...

There’s a quote on my desktop from the Roman emperor and philosopher Marcus Aurelius that ... died in infancy or at young ages. Cassius Dio wrote of Aurelius that he “did not meet with the ...