How Marcus Aurelius Got His 'Insulting' Nickname: Verissimus
Classical Wisdom Speaks
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I'm Not Only True, You're the Truest of All
The Romans were more adept an, the greek as well, rhetoric than we are. And so some of the subtle neances of their conversation con a lost on us. When they're praising somebody, it seems to me that they're often implicitly ising someone else. So when hadrian calls marcus veresimus, he kind of implying that the other members of his family aren't as truthful as marcus. He's got an upgrade. S he's the veris teveris. But then even weirder, marcus adopted his er, had an adopted brother that he made his co emperor. It also meant, yu've gut two emperors, and one
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