Antonines
From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Date: 2008
Antonines , collective name of certain Roman emperors of the 2d cent., namely Antoninus Pius ; his adopted sons, Marcus Aurelius and Verus; and Commodus .
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