One of Machiavelli's "Five Good Emperors"

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Study of the Life of Hadrian Prior to his Accession, Smith Coll. Stud, in Hist.

The rest of the panels, reliefs and medallions had been cannibalized from monuments to earlier emperors such as Hadrian, Trajan and Marcus Aurelius.

Perhaps Hadrian had reinvented Judaea and turned it into Palestine, but the Jews seemed to have reinvented their religion as well.

The two sorceresses, of the Island of Britain and of Canopus respectively, are created to suggest the world of fortune tellers and dealers in occult sciences with whom Hadrian liked to surround himself.

Gray, The Founding of Aelia Capitolina and the Chronology of the Jewish War under Hadrian, and New Light from Egypt on the Early Reign of Hadrian, Amer. Journ.

The restless activity of Hadrian was not less remarkable when compared with the gentle repose of Antoninus Pius.

The biographers, who, under the reigns of Diocletian and Constantine, composed, or rather compiled, the lives of the Emperors, from Hadrian to the sons of Carus, are usually mentioned under the names of Aelius Spartianus, Julius Capitolinus, Aelius Lampridius, Vulcatius Gallicanus, Trebellius Pollio and Flavius Vopiscus.

During a happy period of more than fourscore years, the public administration was conducted by the virtue and abilities of Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and the two Antonines.

Simon, a great man in his way, had divided his followers into hundreds of squadrons [hyperlink] Hadrian in Military Dress Bust from Crete, Paris, Louvre [hyperlink] Trophies from the Temple of the Divine Hadrian, Rome Rome, Museum of the Palace of the Conservators [hyperlink] Letter of Simon Bar-Kochba Dead Sea Manuscript, Palestine Archaeological Museum, Jerusalem posted on mountain ridges or placed in ambush in caverns and abandoned quarries, or even hidden in houses of the teeming suburbs of the cities.

Eugenie Strong, Chapter XV on The Golden Age of Hadrian in Art in Ancient Rome, II, 1929.

Lawrence reminded me that his tracks in Asia Minor cross and recross those of Hadrian.

The reader who likes to consider sources at first hand will not necessarily know where to find the principal ancient texts relating to Hadrian, or even what they are, since most of them come down to us from writers of the late classical period who are relatively little read, and who are ordinarily familiar only to specialists.

The military strength, which it had been sufficient for Hadrian and the elder Antoninus to display, was exerted against the Parthians and the Germans by the emperor Marcus.

Though connected by no Wall of Hadrian, this system was fully as efficient as Britain’s, at this time, for the Mias had no organized attack to fear.

I doubled the city in extent: along the Ilissus I planned a new Athens, the city of Hadrian joined to the city of Theseus.