HADRIAN. T. ANTONINUS PIUS. M. AURELIUS ANTONINUS. Adoption of Hadrian, 229 Remission of taxes, 229 Outbreak of the Jews, under Barkochba, 230 Hadrian’s journey through the provinces. Love for Athens, 280 Hadrian’s melancholy, 230 Adoption of Ælius Verus, and of T. Antoninus (Pius), 231 Foundation of Roman jurisprudence, 281 Literature. _Lingua rustica_, 281 Contempt for the old writers, 232 Hadrian favours Greek literature, 282 Gellius. Fronto, 233 African school. Apuleius, Tertullian, 233 Greek literature, 234 Lucian. Galen. Pausanias, 286 _Moles Hadriani._ Hadrian’s villa, 285 Hadrian as an author, 286 _T. Antoninus Pius_, 236 Wars on the borders, 236 Insurrections. Earthquakes, 237 Gaius. Sextus Empiricus. Appian, 237 Manufactures of Egypt, 237 _M. Aurelius Antoninus_, philosopher, 237 Stoicism. Junius Rusticus. Epictetus. Arrian, 289 War on the borders, 240 L. Verus, 240 War against the Parthians, 240 Plague, 241 War with the German nations, 241 Rebellion of Avidius Cassius, 243 Death of M. Aurelius, 246 Gellius, 247 COMMODUS. PERTINAX. DIDIUS JULIANUS. SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS.