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On his deathbed he sent a bulletin to the Senate naming his second cousin Publius Aelius Hadrianus Hadrian, the forty-one-year-old governor of Syria, as his adopted son and heir.
Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010
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From the Roman cognomen Hadrianus, which meant "from Hadria" in Latin.
Neth Space Neth 2006
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Adrian to the times of Constantine, was profaned by the temple of Adonis: for the asserting of which he cites these words of Paulinus: "Hadrianus, supposing that he should destroy the Christian faith by offering injury to the place, in the place of the passion dedicated the image of Jupiter, and profaned Beth-lehem with the temple of Adonis": as also like words of
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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The words which were formerly familiar are now antiquated; so also the names of those who were famed of old, are now in a manner antiquated: Camillus, Caeso, Volesus, Leonnatus, and a little after also Scipio and Cato, then Augustus, then also Hadrianus and Antoninus.
IV 1909
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Does Chaurias or Diotimus sit by the tomb of Hadrianus?
VIII 1909
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This is the chief thing: Be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal; and in a little time thou wilt be nobody and nowhere, like Hadrianus and Augustus.
VIII 1909
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And place before thy eyes entire dramas and stages of the same form, whatever thou hast learned from thy experience or from older history; for example, the whole court of Hadrianus, and the whole court of Antoninus, and the whole court of Philippus, Alexander, Croesus; for all those were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.
X 1909
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Eusebius says that the Apology was handed in to the emperor Hadrian; but the superscription in Syriac is addressed to the emperor Titus Hadrianus
History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890
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AElius Hadrianus, a young man for whom Trajan's wife is rumored to have had more than a platonic affection, and who in younger days was numbered among Trajan's mignons.
Imperial Purple Edgar Saltus 1889
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Charlemagne, an address in forty-five irregular verses, written with his own hand, which formed an anagram: "Pope Adrian to his most excellent son, Charlemagne, king" (_Domino excellentissimo filio Carolo Magno regi, Hadrianus papa_).
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 Rossiter Johnson 1885
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