id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-184 Early life of Marcus Aurelius - Wikipedia .html text/html 10306 1077 68 Dio is vital for the military history of the period, but his senatorial prejudices and strong opposition to imperial expansion obscure his perspective.[5] Some other literary sources provide specific detail: the writings of the physician Galen on the habits of the Antonine elite, the orations of Aelius Aristides on the temper of the times, and the constitutions preserved in the Digest and Codex Justinianus on Marcus Aurelius' legal work.[6] Inscriptions and coin finds supplement the literary sources.[7] As part of Hadrian's terms, Antoninus adopted Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Commodus, the son of Aelius. Soon after Fronto's tenure as consul suffectus in July and August 143, Marcus Aurelius wrote a letter to him mentioning that Herodes' new-born son had recently died. ^ Dio 69.21.1; HA Hadrian 24.1; HA Aelius 6.9; HA Pius 4.6–7; Birley, Marcus Aurelius, 48–49. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-184.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-184.txt