Hadrian, PUBLIUS

ÆLIUS, 76-138. Fourteenth Roman emperor, succeeding Trajan 117; an able and accomplished man, in whom noble and base elements were strangely mingled; an ince ant traveler, a great patron of architecture, and in the main a wise and liberal ruler. He abandoned to the Parthians the regions e. of the Euphrates, and suppre ed a Jewish revolt 132-135. His reign was prosperous and unusually peaceful. His coinage is the finest in the imperial series. The lines ascribed to him, when near death, "Animula vagula blaudula," are famous. IMG:content-0462.png:[graphic] Chandler's Encyclopedia IMG:content-0464.png:[ocr errors] IMG:content-0465.png:[graphic] Hadrian, or ADRIAN, I., Pope 772-795. Charlemagne confirmed his temporal rights 774.II., 867-872.-III.. Agapetus, Pope 884-5.-IV., Nicholas Breaks peare, b. in England ab. 1100; abbot of St. Rufus, near Avignon 1137, Bp. of Albano 1146, Pope 1154-59. He had trouble with Hadrian. Arnold of Brescia and Frederic I.-V., Ottobons Fieschi, Pope 1276.-VI., Rodenbusch, or Dedel, b. in Utrecht 1459; prof. at Louvain, tutor of Charles V., Bp. and Regent of Spain 1520, Pope 1522-23. He made vain efforts at reform.