Aulus Gellius, a writer of the time of hadrian, often quotes and comments upon him with hearty and genial sympathy.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
We went to see the wonderful old bridge that hadrian, the Roman Emperor, built.
"My Diary in Serbia: April 1, 1915-Nov. 1, 1915"
Monica M. Stanley
After hadrian's reign pure Roman literature, in any worthy sense, is extinct; it dies away in that Sahara of the higher intellect which stretches forward to the Fall of the Empire.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill