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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3305695, member: 56859&quot;]Apologies, Greg and everyone-- I misunderstood <i><a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Historia_Augusta/Aelius*.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Historia_Augusta/Aelius*.html" rel="nofollow">Historia Augusta</a> </i>and it took many re-readings to understand the chapter.&nbsp; Actually, I still don&#039;t understand it but now I think the playboy/boy toy thing was in reference to Lucius Verus, not his father Aelius.&nbsp; I read it too quickly last month, casually scanning for lurid passages, and now realize that I don&#039;t understand the chapter at all.&nbsp; The author seems to indicate that Lucius Verus was adopted by Hadrian but I thought LV was adopted by Antoninus Pius.</p><p><br /></p><p>The names Aelius and Lucius Verus are presented differently than in other sources and the whole chapter doesn&#039;t make sense.&nbsp; Sometimes a paragraph seems to be about Aelius and then the next seems to be about Lucius Verus.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s very confusing.&nbsp; Maybe someone else can read that short chapter and explain it to me <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie10" alt=":oops:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; The chapter was written ~150 years after the reported events so perhaps there are factual errors.&nbsp; Historia Augusta is not known for its accuracy but I thought that was more about the gossipy and lurid nature of the tales rather than timelines.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edited again:&nbsp; one modern source estimates that the Aelius chapter is only ~25% factually accurate <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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