In his Meditations, he thanks the gods, who had bestowed on him a wife so faithful, so gentle, and of such a wonderful simplicity of manners.

[4] The obsequious senate, at his earnest request, declared her a goddess.

She was represented in her temples, with the attributes of Juno, Venus, and Ceres; and it was decreed, that, on the day of their nuptials, the youth of either sex should pay their vows before the altar of their chaste patroness.

[5] [Footnote 2: Faustinam satis constat apud Cajetam conditiones sibi et nauticas et gladiatorias, elegisse.Hist.August.p.30.

Lampridius explains the sort of merit which Faustina chose, and the conditions which she exacted.Hist.August.p.