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FAUSTINA, ANNIA GALERIA

FAUSTINA, ANNIA GALERIA , the younger, daughter of See also:

ANTONINUS, SAINT ANTONIO PIEROZZI

Antoninus See also:

PIUS

Pius, and wife of See also:

MARCUS

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. She is accused by Dio See also:

Cassius and Capitolinus of See also:

GROSS

gross profligacy, and was reputed to have instigated the revolt of Avidius Cassius against her See also:

HUSBAND

husband. She died in 175 or 176 (so See also:

Clinton, See also:

FASTI

Fasti rem.) at Halala, near See also:

MOUNT, WILLIAM SIDNEY (1807-1868)

Mount See also:

TAURUS (" the Bull ")

Taurus, in See also:

CAPPADOCIA

Cappadocia, whither she had accompanied Aurelius. Charitable See also:

SCHOOLS

schools for See also:

ORPHAN

orphan girls (hence called Faustinianae) were founded in her See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour, like those established by her See also:

FATHER

father Antoninus in honour of his wife, the See also:

elder Faustina. Her statue was placed in the See also:

temple of See also:

VENUS

Venus, and she was numbered among the tutelary deities of See also:

Rome. From the fact that Aurelius was always devoted to her and was heartbroken at her See also:

DEATH

death, it has been inferred that the unfavourable estimate of the historians is prejudiced or at least mistaken. See Capitolinus, Marcus Aurelius; Dio Cassius lxxi. 22, lxxiv. 3; E. See also:

RENAN, ERNEST (1823-1892)

Renan, in Melanges d'histoire et See also:

DES

des voyages, 169-195.

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