Publius Aelius Hadrianus | a shafted hunt |
his paternal grandfather married Trajan’s aunt | heft |
Trajan takes young Hadrian as his ward | a longing toward a loss |
several times tribune | study and effect |
accompanies Trajan to Rome | travel broadens |
marries Vibia Sabina | but the blues |
quaestor | pulls inward |
staff-officer | to a point |
archivist | a higher and higher |
plebeian tribune | pushing |
commander | an affect |
praetor | and sudden |
governor of Lower Pannonia | process |
suffect consul | to thousands |
member of priestly colleges | there are eyes |
in 111 or 112 elected archon of Athens | and dead hands |
governor of Syria | collective crash |
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Trajan dies in Cilicia on 8 August 117 | stick |
on the 9th announced at Antioch | and the push |
he’d adopted Hadrian as successor | ultimate |
11 August dies imperii | but it goes up |
circumstances unfortunate, even ambiguous | a head |
succession not a matter for armed contention | regardless of |
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Prompt abandoning of Trajan’s imperialist policy | thought |
in the East | blown badness |
Imperial Civil Service staffed by graded and salaried | intellect wrapped |
knights or imperial consilium | expanded |
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Decides to go on a tour of the provinces | buzz tone |
military organization | Hollywood |
the need to recognize—and guide— | all goes to |
provincial aspirations by showing himself as their | that old place |
common symbol; his own desire | sex abounds |
to learn provincial conditions especially | in a wall |
in Hellenized areas advertises | on a border a catch |
his policy by coins | a wilderness for loving |
travels to Gaul, the Rhine, living | low as horizon took |
the soldier’s life | grey miles accepted |
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Crosses from Holland to Britain in 121 | weighty statements |
establishes the triple limes | proferred finally as text |
frontier-wall of Roman Britain | known to do the job |
80 Roman Miles | of policing ideas |
Wallsend-on-Tyne to Bowness-on-Solway | voluptuous sentiment |
10 feet thick and 15 feet high | they met by the canal |
excluding battlements | every third minute |
20 feet thick at base and 12 feet high | and could see that places |
a V-shaped ditch (27 feet wide and 15 feet deep) | opened how their bodies |
patrols lie in attached mile-castles | could play upon one another |
towered gates to north | and lights on water |
intermediate turrets | there too a lonely instrument |
as work progresses, changes come | and walking words powered |
patrol-track runs along south side of the ditch | by a woman’s intellect |
reached by causeways at the mile-castles | pushing to the capitol |
public passages pierce both mounds | place where religion sits |
crossed by ditch on a causeway | in politics’ skin ear |
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Returning to Gaul (commemorates Plotina’s death | settled in books and |
by a temple at Nimes) reaches Spain by 122 | magazines of times and |
sails from Spain, tours Asia, the Troad, | beliefs in cults |
Poropontis, Phrygia | exorcism of wealth as |
favoring communities, leaves for Greece | again turning left |
returns to Rome via Sicily | belief system a real |
next year visits Africa | attempt to drown |
to revise land-tenure on imperial domain-lands | tedious 40 hours |
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After a few weeks in Rome, leaves to winter in | that sticking sound |
Athens, dedicates the Olympieum, himself | founders on |
Zeus Panhellenios, accepts title | history, one’s |
‘Olympius’ | and the nation’s |
travels to Caria, Cilicia, Cappadocia, Syria | the picture allowed us |
journeys up the Nile (there to lose Antinous, q.v.) | of crooked, realized sons |
returns to Rome | that talent gone awry |
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Builds a shrine to Jupiter Capitolinus on site of | haywire instinct, fathoming |
temple at Jerusalem | sick systems of remuneration |
with or without prohibition of circumcision | the head falls in a pallet |
this precipitates revolt | a bullet singing by the side |
drawing Hadrian to Antioch | urgent singing, a stick |
a siege of Jerusalem — widespread repressive | cast into a road by a |
measures | horse crippled at rest |
Judaea becomes Syria Palaestina | several seasons witness |
to Christianity as such Hadrian’s attitude was | foreign intrusions dance |
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that of Trajan | with poetry smitten |
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Provincial extortion is rare | somber edict |
conditions of slavery ameliorated | gangster rhythm now |
in jurisdiction relative progress | centers accrete, slow |
circuit-judges | vision recused allow |
by 129, one code drawn up | turbulent inroad |
Hadrian allows no treason charges | war taken to rest |
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Spanish-born and Greek-inspired, intellectual, | herded into taxis |
critic and connoisseur, littérateur, | symbols in river son |
accomplished musician and artist, ‘the mature | couldn’t exist simply |
pleasures of peaceful life at Rome’ | but was simplicity |
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Government enlightened centralization | constructed as ever |
plain debt to the gods | but as never interconnected |
succession must be clear | glamour and architecture |
especially if plotting begins | as memory or invitation |
Hadrian adopts L. Aelius | beginning and end |
turns to Antoninus Pius | synthesized |
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In 138, conmsumptive and dropsical, he dies | not far from home |
aged sixty-three | existing at pattern |
now-famous verses on his lips | fathoming difference |
buried in Mausoleum he built | and seeing horizons |
deified at length | dim at last |
perhaps alienated, perhaps apathetic | a quiet sleep |