Goodbye, Marcus Aurelius. What century saw the rise and fall of the great Roman emperor?

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." – Marcus Aurelius. One of Rome's most famous emperors, Marcus Aurelius ruled during the 2nd century, from 161 to 180 A.D. Fighting off the Germans on one side, the Parthians on the other, and infectious disease every which way, Aurelius tag-teamed the effort with his brother Verus. The intellectual emperor was, without a doubt, one of the strongest rulers in Rome's history.

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