Hadrian's Fatigue

The senate invested Antoninus with tribionition power and granted him full imperium. Hadrian was suffering from what modern doctors have diagnosed as congestive heart disease. He had daggers and poisons smuggled into his room on no fewer than three occasions, only to be thwarted at the last moment. In letters exchanged with his new adopted son, he apologizes for letting his grief take over. Finally, though, the black magic of Servianus' prayer wore off, and On July 10, 138 AD, attended only by two slaves and Antoninus,. Hadrian died at one of the imperial palaces in Campania along the Bay of Naples. His reign lasted twenty-one years.