id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt penelope-uchicago-edu-7307 Historia Augusta • Life of Hadrian (Part 1 of 2) .html text/html 10551 824 76 2 The father of Hadrian was Aelius Hadrianus, surnamed Afer, a cousin of the Emperor Trajan; his mother was Domitia Paulina, a native of Cadiz; his sister was Paulina, the wife of Servianus,4 his wife was Sabina,5 and his great-grandfather's grandfather was Marullinus, the first of his family to be a Roman senator. 3 Later, when the senate offered him the triumph which was to have been Trajan's, he refused it for himself, and caused the effigy of the dead Emperor to be carried in a triumphal chariot, in order that the best of emperors might not lose even after death the honour of a triumph.55 4 Also he refused for the present the title of Father of his Country, offered to him at the time of his accession and again later on, giving as his reason the fact that Augustus had not won it until late in life.56 5 Of the crown-money57 ./cache/penelope-uchicago-edu-7307.html ./txt/penelope-uchicago-edu-7307.txt