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Looks like this guy's a Roman emperor. But it doesn't say that, does it?

MILHIST assessment

Assessed at C. If inline citations were added to section on Early Life and Career, would be a B. Monstrelet (talk) 14:49, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Parthian War section too long?

The section on the Parthian War seems excessively detailed, with much of the content having little to do with Lucius Verus. I suggest this be edited down considerably.-J. Conti 108.20.74.240 (talk) 05:51, 7 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

WP:PRESERVE. Don't just "edit down" good treatments. If it's an WP:UNDUE amount for this article, just move it elsewhere and link from here. —

Llywelyn II

23:55, 13 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Lucius Verus was running the Parthian War, or at least in nominal control of it. He was not a military man, indeed more of a lady's man and loved to party & hangout with actors. But he did apparently accompany the Roman armies on the campaign to Parthia and did some of the administrative work that only Roman Emperors can do. Marcus Aurelius stayed in Rome during this war. Neither he nor Lucius had any military experience, which must be partly the fault of the previous Emperor, Antoninus Pius, since Marcus was Pius' "junior Emperor" or "vice-Emperor" during most of Pius' reign. He spent much of the time studying rhetoric and philosophy, and acting as judge in legal cases, but once Pius died, The two co-emperors Lucius Verus and Marcus Aurelius (this was the first co-emperorship that was ever tried), spent most of their time fighting wars. Lucius died in late 168 or early 169 while traveling from Germany back to Rome with Marcus. He apparently died suddenly, although there was a plague raging at the time. But the usual rumors of Lucius being poisoned circulated in the histories. The supposed perpetrators are either Marcus himself, Marcus' wife Faustina, because of an affair with Lucius, or even Lucius' wife Lucilla (Marcus'daughter). Co-emperorships were tried again later in Roman history, usually with disastrous results. 47.232.145.208 (talk) 14:29, 4 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Lucius of Britain

Given that Bede claims "King Lucius" ruled in 156 during the principate of "Aurelius Commodus" and "his brother" "Marcus Antoninus Verus" and during the pontificate of Eleutherius, a thoroughly muddled state of affairs, has any scholar simply proposed that Bede (or the original L. Pontificalis author) simply garbled Lucius's first name into a new king? — $Llywelyn II$ 23:55, 13 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Much of this article is cribbed from Anthony Birley, specifically "Marcus Aurelius", 1966. 47.232.145.208 (talk) 09:03, 4 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]