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On the death of Antonínus, Marcus Annius Verus succeeded him under the title of Marcus Aurelius Antonínus.
Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. Robert Franklin Pennell
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AURELIUS ANTONÍNUS, and required him to adopt Marcus Annius Verus and
Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. Robert Franklin Pennell
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Marcus Annius Verus was in all respects a model boy.
Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times Elbridge Streeter Brooks 1874
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Marcus Annius Verus, afterwards Emperor, from a bust in the Capitoline Museum, _Frontispiece_
Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times Elbridge Streeter Brooks 1874
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Eventually, the emperor chose the well-regarded fifty-one-year-old ex-consul Aurelius Antoninus, on the condition that Antoninus agree to adopt both his wife Annia Galeria Faustina’s nephew Marcus Annius Verus—a young favorite of Hadrian’s—and Lucius Ceionius Commodus, the young son of a consul, as his reserve successors, a suggestion to which Antoninus in due course acquiesced.
Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010
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