Name ten men fit to rule Rome — no, nine; I already know one of them, Servianus.
Sufficit decem nominare; immo novem, unum enim novi, Servianum.
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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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Source: Historia Augusta, Vita Hadriani 23 (宴席での発言として伝えられる)Unverified
Hadrian's Other Quotes
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?
This is the city of Hadrian, and not of Theseus.
A crowd of doctors has killed an emperor.
He who commands thirty legions is wiser than I am.