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Message:: [QUOTE="Arturo, post: 1997366, member: 27471"]From the Talmud"Antoninus once said to Rabbi: It is my desire that my son Asverus should reign instead of me and that Tiberias17 should be declared a Colony. Were I to ask one of these things it would be granted while both would not be granted. Rabbi thereupon brought a man, and having made him ride on the shoulders of another, handed him a dove bidding the one who carried him to order the one on his shoulders to liberate it. The Emperor perceived this to mean that he was advised to ask [of the Senate] to appoint his son Asverus to reign in his stead, and that subsequently he might get Asverus to make Tiberias a free Colony. "  Avodah Zarah 10a From the Encyclopedia Judaica:"The bearers of the names given here have been variously identified. S. J. Rappaport [H] s.v. [H]) is of opinion that our Antoninus is Antoninus Pius (138-161) and that Asverus is his adopted son Marcus Aurelius (161-180), who was also called Annius Verus — here contracted into A-S-Verus." Rabbi is bought to be Judah The Prince (135-213).  Judah redacted the Mishnah and was in the Davidic line, hence the title "Prince."  There are several such intractions between Aant. and Judah recounted in the Talmud.[/QUOTE]