Little soul, wandering and pale, guest and companion of my body, into what places will you now depart — bloodless, rigid, naked — never again to share your familiar jests?
Animula vagula blandula, hospes comesque corporis, quae nunc abibis in loca pallidula rigida nudula, nec ut soles dabis iocos.
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Hadrian
14th Roman emperor (r. 117-138). Hispania-born, he traded Trajan's expansion for fixed borders — Hadrian's Wall — and rebuilt the Pantheon. One of Gibbon's Five Good Emperors, a tyrant in Jewish memory.
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