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penelope-uchicago-edu-1429		Historia Augusta • Life of Marcus Aurelius (Part 2 of 2)			.html	text/html	6945	679	83	2 He himself singled out the Marcomannic war — a war which surpassed any in the memory of man — and waged it with both valour and success, and that at a time when a grievous pestilence had carried away thousands of civilians and soldiers.113 3 And so, by crushing the Marcomanni, the Sarmatians, the Vandals, and even the Quadi, he freed the Pannonias from bondage,114 and with Commodus his son, whom he had previously named Caesar, triumphed at Rome, as we told above.115 4 When he had drained the treasury for this war, moreover, and could not bring himself to impose any extraordinary tax on the provincials, he held a public sale in the Forum of the Deified Trajan116 of the imperial furnishings, and sold goblets of gold and crystal and murra,117 even flagons made for kings, his wife's silken gold-embroidered robes, and, indeed, even certain jewels which he had found in considerable numbers in a particularly holy cabinet of Hadrian's.	./cache/penelope-uchicago-edu-1429.html	./txt/penelope-uchicago-edu-1429.txt