He was adopted by Pius; and, on the accession of Marcus, was invested with an equal share of sovereign power.

Among the many vices of this younger Verus, he possessed one virtue; a dutiful reverence for his wiser colleague, to whom he willingly abandoned the ruder cares of empire.

The philosophic emperor dissembled his follies, lamented his early death, and cast a decent veil over his memory.
[Footnote 40: The deification of Antinous, his medals, his statues, temples, city, oracles, and constellation, are well known, and still dishonor the memory of Hadrian.

Yet we may remark, that of the first fifteen emperors, Claudius was the only one whose taste in love was entirely correct.

For the honors of Antinous, see Spanheim, Commentaire sui les Caesars de Julien, p.