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Headword: Adrianos
Adler number: alpha,527
Translated headword: Hadrianos, Hadrianus, Hadrian
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Emperor of the Romans.[1] He was of senatorial descent, his father having been the general Afer -- for thus he was [sur]named;[2] he was by nature fluent in each language;[3] and he left behind both some prose pieces and various poems in verse. For he used his ambition assiduously and in accordance with this he pursued everything else, even the pettiest things; for he used to sculpt and paint and say that he knew nothing that was not both for times of peace and times of war, both of an emperor and of a private citizen. And whereas this hurt people in no way, most terrible was his envy of all men who were outstanding in something, many of whom he deposed and many he killed. For he wanted to be pre-eminent of all men in all things and he hated those who were superior in something. And because of this he attempted to undermine Favorinus the Gaul[4] and Dionysius the Milesian in various ways but especially by exalting their rivals, although some were worthy of nothing and others of very little.[5] This man in a letter wrote a number of arrogant things, including an oath that he would neither do anything [outside of what was] beneficial to the public[6] nor kill any senator, and he wished destruction upon himself if he should depart in any way from these things;[7] nevertheless he went astray on many points.
This man was pleasant to meet and some favor graced him, as he used the languages of both the Latins and the Greeks most excellently; furthermore he was regarded as a great marvel for the gentleness of his ways, and as someone who had been zealous in the amassing of public funds.[8]
This man was by nature such a man that he was envious not only towards the living but towards those who were dead; at any rate he undermined Homer and instead of him introduced Antimachus, whose name many had never heard of before.[9] They found fault with these deeds of his as well as with his strictness and his curiosity and his meddlesomeness; but he ameliorated and compensated for these things with other care and forethought and munificence and cleverness; and in addition to this he began no war and stopped those that were already on, and deprived no one of money unjustly, and he bestowed a lot [of money] on many men, both public officials and private citizens.[10] He was extremely superstitious and made use of various oracles and incantations. His boyfriend was a certain Antinoos; he founded and colonized a city and named it for him.[11] And he said that a certain [vision/apparition] was Antinoos.[12]
This man came into Pannonia and crossed the Danube with his troops. And the barbarians who were there beat off this [attack].[13]
Greek Original:
Adrianos: basileus Rhômaiôn. ên de to genos bouleutou patros estratêgêkotos Aphrou: houtô gar ônomazeto: phusin de philologos en hekaterai têi glôssêi: kai tina peza kai en epesi poiêmata pantodapa katelipe. philotimiai te gar aplêstôs echrêto kai kata touto kai talla panta kai ta brachutata epetêdeue: kai gar eplasse kai egraphe kai ouden ho ti ou kai eirênikon kai polemikon kai basilikon kai idiôtikon eidenai elege. kai touto men ouden pou tous anthrôpous eblapten: ho de dê phthonos autôi deinotatos es pantas tous tini proechontas ôn pollous men katheile, suchnous de apôlese. boulomenos gar pantôn en pasi perieinai emisei tous en tini huperairontas. kak toutou kai ton Phabôrinon Galatên ton te Dionusion ton Milêsion tous sophistas kataluein epecheirei tois te allois kai malista tôi tous antagônistas sphôn exairein, tous men mêdenos, tous de brachutatou tinos axious ontas. houtos en epistolêi egrapse ta te alla megalophronêsamenos, kai epomosas mête ti tôn dêmosiôi sumpherontôn poiêsein mête bouleutên tina aposphaxein, kai exôleian heautôi, an kai hotioun autôn ekbêi, proseparasamenos: all' homôs dieblêthê eis polla. houtos ên hêdus men entuchein kai epênthei tis autôi charis, têi te Latinôn kai Hellênôn glôttêi arista chrômenos: ou mên epi praotêti tropôn agan ethaumazeto, peri te tên tôn dêmosiôn chrêmatôn espoudakôs athroisin. houtos phusei toioutos ên hôste mê monon tois zôsin alla kai tois teteleutêkosi phthonein: ton goun Homêron kataluôn Antimachon ant' autou esêgen, hou mêde to onoma polloi proteron êpistanto. êitiônto men dê tauta te autou kai to panu akribes to te periergon kai polupragmon: etherapeue de auta kai anelambane têi te allêi epimeleiai kai pronoiai kai megaloprepeiai kai dexiotêti, kai tôi mête tina polemon taraxai kai tous ontas pausai, mête tina chrêmata adikôs aphelesthai, kai pollois polla kai dêmois kai idiôtais charisasthai. ên de periergotatos kai manteiais kai manganeiais pantodapais echrêto. paidika te autou egegonei Antinoos tis: ektise de polin kai sunôikisen ap' autou te ônomase. kai tina horônta Antinoon legein. houtos es Pannonian aphiketo kai ton Istron meta tôn hoplôn dienêxato. kai touto hoi parontes barbaroi exeplagêsan.
Notes:
[1] Publius Aelius Hadrianus, ruled 117-138. See generally A.R. Birley in OCD(4) pp.641-2; DIR entry (Herbert Benario) at web address 1. The present entry, apart from one short extract from John of Antioch (see n.8 below), draws on the epitome and excerpts of Cassius Dio book 69, sections 2ff.
[2] Hadrian's father, Publius Aelius Hadrianus, surnamed Afer ("African"), died when Hadrian was 9; Hadrian then become the ward of his father's cousin, the emperor Trajan (tau 902).
[3] Greek and Latin.
[4] See generally phi 4. For Favorinus and Hadrian cf. Scriptores Historiae Augustae, Hadrian 15.11.
[5] Cassius Dio 69.3.1-4.
[6] The preposition e)/cw, in Dio, is omitted by the lexicographer, corrupting the sense. The phrase should read, as supplemented here, "anything outside of what was beneficial to the public".
[7] Cassius Dio 69.2.4.
[8] John of Antioch fr.113 FHG (4.581), now 195 Roberto.
[9] Antimachus of Colophon: alpha 2681.
[10] Cassius Dio 69.4.6-5.1.
[11] Antino-opolis, in Egypt (Barrington Atlas map 77 grid D1).
[12] Cassius Dio 69.11.3-4; cf. pi 858. This last sentence is somewhat sketchy, but perhaps refers to Dio's account that Hadrian saw a star which he was convinced was the spirit of Antinoos.
[13] Cassius Dio 69.9.6. The Roman province of Pannonia occupied a region that stretches from modern-day eastern Austria into western Hungary (Barrington Atlas map 20 grids C3, D4, E4).
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Keywords: biography; economics; epic; ethics; gender and sexuality; historiography; history; military affairs; poetry; religion; rhetoric
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 28 February 2002@21:11:17.
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