Hadrian

scio quidem diuum Hadrianum etiam maiori xxv annorum ueniam dedisse, cum post aditam hereditatem grande aes alienum quod aditae hereditatis tempore latebat apparuisset.

The late Emperor Hadrian even relieved a person who had attained his majority, when, after his acceptance of an inheritance, a great debt, unknown at the time of acceptance, had come to light.

quae sententia dicitur diui Hadriani constitutione confirmata esse.

For all things fade and quickly become the stuff of legend, and quickly utter oblivion buries them.

Celer buried Hadrian, then Celer.

Or Chabrias or Diotimus beside that of Hadrian?

The immense length to which it extended, together perhaps with some distaste for its necessarily disorderly texture, caused the practice of increasing it to be stopped in the year of Salvius Julianus, who occupied the magistracy in the reign of the Emperor Hadrian.

It ceased to be extended by annual additions, and henceforward the equity jurisprudence of Rome was developed by the labours of a succession of great jurisconsults who fill with their writings the interval between the reign of Hadrian and the reign of Alexander Severus.

The first serious blows at the ancient institution are attributed to the earlier Cæsars, and some isolated interferences of Trajan and Hadrian seem to have prepared the ground for a series of express enactments which, though we cannot always determine their dates, we know to have limited the father’s powers on the one hand, and on the other to have multiplied facilities for their voluntary surrender.

We find, in the Pandect, a law of Adrian, which denounces death to the physicians who should make an eunuch, either by castration or by bruising the testes.

while it was lower down, about the times of Hadrian the king, that those who devised the heresies arose, and they continued down to the age of Antoninus the elder—such as Basilides, even though he inscribes Glaucias as his teacher, the interpreter of Peter (as they themselves boast).

He lived till the time of Hadrian, under whose administration he filled the office of secretary;

At any rate we do know that in the noblest days of Rome, its wisest and best of emperors, Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and Marcus Aurelius, all succeeded to the purple, not by birth, but by adoption.