On the death of Hadrian in A. D. 138, Antoninus Pius succeeded to the throne, and, in accordance with the late Emperor's conditions, adopted Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Commodus.

PRIOR TO A CHILD OF QUALITY (1704) TO A LADY (1704) THE DYING HADRIAN TO HIS SOUL (1704) A BETTER ANSWER (1718)

Calling forth the fire of his genius, and facing the reality of life, he set himself to work, spreading the teaching of the New Way among the Picts of the norththe same Picts who, in years gone by, had raged against the barrier of Hadrian between Forth and Clyde.

The body of St. Peter, which had long, according to popular tradition, rested in the catacombs of the Vatican, was now transferred to the great basilica which Constantine, despoiling for the purpose the tomb of Hadrian of its marbles, erected over the entrance to the underground cemetery.

Finding himself, however, held fast by the clutches of the disease, he started to sail to Italy himself and left behind Publius Aelius Hadrian with the army in Syria.

Seeing this the barbarians stood in terror of the Romans, and turning their attention to their own affairs [Footnote: Reading [Greek: epi] (Dindorf) instead of [Greek: peri]] they employed Hadrian as an arbitrator of their differences.

DIO'S ROMAN HISTORY 69 Hadrian without being adopted succeeds, through the favor of Plotina (chapters 1, 2).

It happened that Hadrian at the time was pluming himself upon some such drawing.