18/43 The senate doubted whether they should pronounce him a god or a tyrant; and the honors decreed to his memory were granted to the prayers of the pious Antoninus. [39] [Footnote 38: Dion (l.lxix.p. 1249) affirms the whole to have been a fiction, on the authority of his father, who, being governor of the province where Trajan died, had very good opportunities of sifting this mysterious transaction. xvii.) has maintained that Hadrian was called to the certain hope of the empire, during the lifetime of Trajan.] [Footnote 39: Dion, (l.lxx.p. |