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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;svessien, post: 7603212, member: 15481&quot;]Thank you Limes!</p><p>That’s a good question, really. You are really asking wether it was chance that gave us 5 adopted emperors in a row. It’s worth looking into. </p><p>I have wondered if it was attachment to his son, the one surviving twin, that made Marcus Aurelius choose Commodus as successor. He may have feared the future of his natural son if he made an adopted son emperor. </p><p>Neither Hadrian nor Antoninus Pius had sons that could have inherited the throne, and were forced to adopt. So we may actually have had a line of adoptive emperors out of fate rather than policy. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable than me find the time to weigh in on the subject.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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