A source-book of ancient history - The Search For Mecca

In Greece
and Asia
Minor.
Spartianus,
Hadrian, 13.
(For tlic
I'.luusinian
mysteries,
see Greece,
97
Rome, 205.
His laws.
SiKirlianus,
Uadriaii, 18.
508 Period of the Five Good Emperors
paired at his own expense a temple to Augustus, and held
a general assembly of the Spanish provincials.
(Afterward he visited Greece,) where like Hercules and
King Philip he had himself initiated into the Eleusinian
mysteries. He not only conferred many benefits on the
Athenians, but sat as judge in their public games. Then
he sailed for Sicily. After his arrival there, he climbed
Mount /Etna to view a sunrise, which from that spot was
beautiiied with the varied colors of the rainbow. Thence
he returned to Rome; but setting out immediately for the
Orient, he travelled through Athens, where he dedicated
the works he had begun, including a temple to the Olympian
Jupiter (Zeus) and an altar to himself.
In the same way, as he journeyed through Asia, he consecrated
temples in his own name.
In Cappadocia he engaged
many slaves for labor in the military camps.
(Wherever
he went, he busied himself with winning the friendship
and alliance of foreign kings.) ... In his circuit of the
provinces he i^unished procurators and governors with such
severity that people believed he had himself incited persons
to accuse them.
In judicial affairs he made up his council, not of friends
and companions but of learned jurists,—Julius Celsus, Salvius
Julianus, Ncratius Priscus, and others,—only those,
however, whom the senate had approved.
Among his enactments the following are most noteworthy
:
In no city shall buildings be destroyed for the use of the
material in some other city.
To children of condemned persons a twelfth part of their
father's property shall be allowed.
Charges of treason shall not be admitted.
Bequests to the emperor from unknown persons shall be