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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 8046260, member: 19463&quot;]&quot;Good Emperors&quot; is the standard term for the five emperors that followed the &#039;12 Caesars&#039; and is not a definitive value judgement as much as a convenient term for the period.&nbsp; Personally, I might prefer a different term but things that have been part of the language for centuries need to be learned.&nbsp; What would you call them?&nbsp; &#039;Adoptives&#039; is popular for the same group. I am unclear on why they did not include Lucius Verus (not as good as he should have been?).&nbsp; It is obviously a stretch to include Commodus who stopped being good shortly after birth but that would be convenient since he was what ended the &#039;good&#039; period and introduced us to the &#039;Severan&#039; period which some people might allow inclusion of non-relatives like Macrinus and the 193 short termers. </p><p><br /></p><p>Nerva (the nose)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1392680[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Trajan (road builder)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1392681[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Hadrian (travelling man)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1392682[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Antoninus Pius (Worked with the Senate better than most)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1392683[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Marcus Aurelius (What reverse would be best for him?)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1392684[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Lucius Verus (wishy-washy?)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1392685[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Commodus as Caesar (hope not realized)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1392686[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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