14. What seemed to give him great uneasiness?

15. How old was Aurelius when he died, and how many years had he reigned?

FOOTNOTES:

[1]

Domi'tian was the last of those emperors commonly called the Twelve Cæsars.

[2]

Nerva, the most remarkable man in Rome for his virtues, recalled all the Christians who had been banished or had emigrated under the persecution of Domi'tian.

[3]

It was customary among the Romans, for a person destitute of a son to adopt one from another family; and the son thus adopted became immediately invested with the same rights and privileges as if he had been born to that station; but he had no longer any claim on the family to which he originally belonged.

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