"Before the murderers of Domitian raised their hands to strike the fatal blow, they looked around, we read, to find a successor to replace him. Others whom they sounded on the subject shrunk away in fear or in suspicion, till they thought of M. Cocceius Nerva, who was likely to fill worthily the office that would soon be vacant..."
"Marcus Ulpius Trajanus, a native of Italica in Spain, had been trained from early youth in the hard discipline of Roman warfare, and by long service in the camps had earned a title to the round of civil honours, and to a place among the senators of Rome. Summoned by Domitian from Spain at the head of a legion to the Rhine, he had come probably too late to help in quelling a revolt; but he had won by his promptitude the honour of a consulship, and was advanced by Nerva to the command of upper Germany..."
"Of the career of P. Aelius Hadrianus, little is known to us for the forty years before he gained the throne... Born himself at Rome, he came of a family which drew its name from Hadria in Northern Italy, but had been settled for centuries in Spain. Losing his father at an early age, he came under the care of Trajan, his near kinsman, and after a few years, in which he made such rapid progress in his studies as to be called 'the little Greekling,' he took to hunting with such passion as to need a check, and was therefore put at once into the army, and taken by his guardian to the wars." - William Wolfe Capes
Contents: Chapter I. Nerva. A.D. 96-98. Chapter II. Trajan. A.D. 97-117. Chapter III. Hadrian. A.D. 117-138. Chapter IV. Antoninus Pius. A.D. 138-161. Chapter V. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. A.D. 147-180. Chapter VI. The Attitude of the Imperial Government towards the Christians. Chapter VII. The Characteristics of the State-Religion, and of the Rites Imported from the East. Chapter VIII. The Literary Currents of the Age. Chapter IX. The Administrative Forms of the Imperial Government.
"Marcus Ulpius Trajanus, a native of Italica in Spain, had been trained from early youth in the hard discipline of Roman warfare, and by long service in the camps had earned a title to the round of civil honours, and to a place among the senators of Rome. Summoned by Domitian from Spain at the head of a legion to the Rhine, he had come probably too late to help in quelling a revolt; but he had won by his promptitude the honour of a consulship, and was advanced by Nerva to the command of upper Germany..."
"Of the career of P. Aelius Hadrianus, little is known to us for the forty years before he gained the throne... Born himself at Rome, he came of a family which drew its name from Hadria in Northern Italy, but had been settled for centuries in Spain. Losing his father at an early age, he came under the care of Trajan, his near kinsman, and after a few years, in which he made such rapid progress in his studies as to be called 'the little Greekling,' he took to hunting with such passion as to need a check, and was therefore put at once into the army, and taken by his guardian to the wars." - William Wolfe Capes
Contents: Chapter I. Nerva. A.D. 96-98. Chapter II. Trajan. A.D. 97-117. Chapter III. Hadrian. A.D. 117-138. Chapter IV. Antoninus Pius. A.D. 138-161. Chapter V. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. A.D. 147-180. Chapter VI. The Attitude of the Imperial Government towards the Christians. Chapter VII. The Characteristics of the State-Religion, and of the Rites Imported from the East. Chapter VIII. The Literary Currents of the Age. Chapter IX. The Administrative Forms of the Imperial Government.
