Hadrian

How To Use Hadrian In A Sentence

• A famous bearer of the name was Publius Aelius Hadrianus, better known as Hadrian, a 2nd-century Roman emperor who built a wall across northern Britain. Neth Space
• Only a sense of uxorial duty to his position stopped Hadrian from sending Sabina into exile.34 Caesars’ Wives
• The first two are images of Hadrian and a detail of the gorgoneion, the third is of Septimus Severus.
• What keeps the reader thoroughly engaged is not drama but the high quality of Hadrian's thought and powers of observation. Portrait of Power Embodied in a Roman Emperor
• 117 Whatever might be the success of his prayer, or the accidents of his future life, the period of a few years levelled in the grave the minister and the poet: but the name of Hadrian is almost sunk in oblivion, while The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• Yet, there is a problem with the fact that the former was "organizer for life" of the games connected with it and probably still alive in A.D. 120-125, whereas the latter, who most likely had witnessed the accession of Hadrian in A.D. 117, was "the first organizer (agonothetès) for eternity (in perpetuum) of the agones Klareia. Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Recording Report 3: Epigraphical Studies
• With Hadrian we see the first steps toward a system of frontier garrison troops, permanently stationed, along with a field army that gets moved from one hot spot to another.
• Without Pliny's letter, we would have misunderstood the meaning of Trajan's reply to it. Yet, Hadrian's rescript makes two essential points clear.
• A programme of repair and maintenance work was undertaken on parts of Hadrian's Wall.
• You will struggle to get a plate of mince and tatties, stovies or even the relatively healthy cock-a-leekie soup south of Hadrian's Wall. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph