Barbaras, Regulus. (A.D. 157 = a.u. 910 = Twentieth of Antoninus).

Tertullus, Sacerdos. (A.D. 158 = a.u. 911 = Twenty-first of Antoninus).

Plautius Quintilius, Statius Priscus. (A.D. 159 = a.u. 912 = Twenty-second of Antoninus).

T. Clodius Vibius Varus, App.  Annius Atilius Bradua. (A.D. 160 = a.u. 913 = Twenty-third of Antoninus).

M. Ael.  Aurelius Verus Caesar (III), I. Ael.  Aurelius Commodus (II). (A.D. 161 = a.u. 914 = Twenty-fourth of Antoninus, to March 7th).

I. From Dio: 

[Sidenote:  A.D. 138 (a.u. 891)] [Sidenote:—­1—­] It should be noted that information about Antoninus Pius is not found in the copies of Dio, probably because the books have met with some accident, so that the history of his reign is almost wholly unknown, save that when Lucius Commodus, whom Hadrian had adopted, died before Hadrian, Antoninus was also adopted by him and became emperor, and that when the senate demurred to giving heroic honors to Hadrian after his demise on account of certain murders of eminent men, Antoninus addressed many words to them with tears and laments, and finally said:  “I will not govern you either, if he has become base and inimical and a national foe in your eyes.  For you will of course be annulling all his acts, of which my adoption was one.”  On hearing this the senate both through respect for the man and through a certain fear of the soldiers bestowed the honors upon Hadrian.

[Sidenote:—­2—­] Only this in regard to Antoninus is preserved in Dio.  Yes, one thing more—­that the senate gave him the titles both of Augustus and of Pius for some such reason as the following.  When in the beginning of his imperial reign many men were accused and some of them had been interceded for by name, he nevertheless punished no one, saying:  “I must not begin my career of supervision with such deeds.”

[Sidenote:  LXIX, 15, 3] [When Pharasmanes the Iberian came to Rome with his wife, he increased his domain, allowed him to offer sacrifice on the Capitoline, set up a statue of him on horseback in the temple of Bellona, and viewed an exercise in arms of the chieftain, his son, and the other prominent Iberians.]

[Sidenote:  A.D. 139 (a.u. 892)] We do not find preserved, either, the first part of the account of Marcus Verus, who ruled after Antoninus and all that the latter himself did in the case of Lucius, son of Commodus, whom Marcus made his son-in-law, and all that Lucius accomplished when sent by his father to the war against Vologaesus.  I shall speak briefly about these matters, gathering my material from other books, and then I shall go back to the continuation of Dio’s narrative.

II.  From Xiphilinus: 

[Sidenote:  LXX, 3] [Sidenote:  A.D. 153 (a.u. 906)] Antoninus is admitted by all to have been noble and good, not oppressive to the Christians nor severe to any of his other subjects; instead, he showed the Christians great respect and added to the honor in which Hadrian had been wont to hold them.  For Eusebius, son of Pamphilus, cites in his Church History [Footnote:  IV, 9.] some letters of Hadrian in which the latter is shown to threaten terrible vengeance upon those who harm in any way or accuse the Christians, and to swear by Hercules that they shall receive punishment.