Quotes About Antonines

The Empire In The Age Of The Antoninies.

Such, under the reign of the Antonines, were the six provinces of Gaul; the Narbonnese, Aquitaine, the Celtic, or Lyonnese, the Belgic, and the two Germanies. We

The Extent Of The Empire In The Age Of The Antonines—Part I.

Their united reigns [the Antonines'] are possibly the only period of history in which the happiness of a great people was the sole object of government.

In the lower orders infanticide was the preferred method of birth control, but attitudes towards this swung sharply negative under the Antonines, in contrast to the tolerance in the late republic and first century of the empire.95 Avoiding reproduction out of financial meanness, or the desire to avoid the pain and suffering of child mortality, produced a distinctive mindset in the second century AD.