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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsden, post: 8010510, member: 38010&quot;]Wow, they were buying votes even back then. Granted, you didn&#039;t exactly vote for emperors, but even emperors had to ensure they didn&#039;t fall out of favor.</p><p><br /></p><p>My favorite fact about Antoninus&#039;s reign is that we know comparatively little about it. And from that fact, scholars may quickly deduce that it was a time of relative peace and prosperity. No disasters to make the news, much less history!</p><p><br /></p><p>And a fair share of the credit must also attach to his predecessor Hadrian...who established the conditions for this long, successful reign with his own. Even Trajanus gets some credit in my view, for much the same reason. </p><p><br /></p><p>One of the many spectacular aspects of the Roman Empire, and of the republic which preceded it, was how thoroughly–and gloriously—they could recover from extreme events like those of the first century.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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