id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1651 Antonine Plague - Wikipedia .html text/html 3002 340 72 Scholars have suspected it to have been either smallpox[1] or measles.[2][3] The plague may have claimed the life of a Roman emperor, Lucius Verus, who died in 169 and was the co-regent of Marcus Aurelius. Although Ge Hong was the first writer of traditional Chinese medicine who accurately described the symptoms of smallpox, the historian Rafe de Crespigny mused that the plagues afflicting the Eastern Han Empire during the reigns of Emperor Huan of Han (r. 184), who instigated the disastrous Yellow Turban Rebellion (184–205).[17] He also stated that "it may be only chance" that the outbreak of the Antonine plague in 166 coincides with the Roman embassy of "Daqin" (the Roman Empire) landing in Jiaozhi (northern Vietnam) and visiting the Han court of Emperor Huan, claiming to represent "Andun" (安敦; a transliteration of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus or his predecessor Antoninus Pius).[18][19][20] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1651.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1651.txt