[Speaking of Hadrian's favorite, Antinous, at left, who was deified after his death] Yet we may remark that of the first fifteen emperors, Claudius was the only one whose taste in love was entirely correct.
--Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (published 1776-1788), Vol. 1, ch. II, footnote 31.
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