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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

noun

Emperor of Rome; nephew and son-in-law and adoptive son of Antonius Pius; Stoic philosopher; the decline of the Roman Empire began under Marcus Aurelius (121-180). Synonyms: Antoninus, Aurelius, Marcus Annius Verus, Marcus Aurelius.

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... Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 A.D.), one of the best emperors of Rome, was a noble Stoic philosopher. His Meditations is regarded by John Stuart Mill as almost equal to the Sermon on the Mount in ...

— Poets of the South • F.V.N. Painter

... escape, of the unrelenting Tiberius, the furious Caligula, the profligate and cruel Nero, the beastly Vitellius, and the timid, inhuman Domitian; but order was maintained, and it was not until Commodus, the son of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, the philosopher, succeeded to the authority that his father had exercised for the benefit of the Roman Empire that the army fully realised, and did not fail to exercise, the ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Vol XI. • Edited by Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton

Words linked to "Marcus Aurelius Antoninus" : Emperor of Rome, Aurelius, Roman Emperor, Marcus Annius Verus, Marcus Aurelius, Antoninus