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him. For Trajan erected many famous monelieeT and 
buildings; insomuch as Constantine the Great in emul- 
ation was wont to call him Parze/aria, wall-flower, because 
his name was upon so many walls: but his buildings-and ; 
works were more of glory and triumph than use and 
necessity. But Adrian spent his whole reign, which was 
peaceable, in a perambulation or survey of the Roman 
empire; giving order and making assignation where he 
went, for re-edifying of cities, towns, and forts decayed; 
and for cutting of rivers and streams, and for making 
bridges and passages, and for policing of cities and com- 
monalties with new ordinances and constitutions, and 
granting new franchises and incorporations ; so that his 
whole time was a very restoration of all the lapses and 
decays of former times. 
7. Antoninus-Pius, who succeeded him, was a prince: 
excellently learned, and had the patient and subtle wit 
of a schoolman; insomuch as in common speech 
(which leaves no virtue untaxed) he was called Cymini 
Sector, a carver or a divider of cummin seed, which is 
one of the least seeds; such a patience he had and 
settled spirit, to enter into the least and most exact 
differences of causes; a fruit no doubt of the exceeding 
tranquillity and serenity of his mind; which being no 
ways charged or incumbered, either with fears, remorses, 
or scruples, but having been noted for a man of the 
purest goodness, without all fiction or affectation, that 
hath reigned or lived, made his mind continually present 
and entire. He likewise approdched a degree nearer 
unto Christianity, and became, as Agrippa said unto 
S. Paul, half a Christian ; holding their religion and 
law in good opinion, and not only ceasing persecution, 
but giving way to the advancement of Christians. 
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