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Reminder for Stoics: Marcus Aurelius's wife was a complete slut

Marcus never remarried after Faustina's death, preferring to...
crystalline native
  06/25/18
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  06/25/18
She even fucked mimes dude. Got to read every word
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Date: June 25th, 2018 7:27 AM
Author: crystalline native

Marcus never remarried after Faustina's death, preferring to take the daughter of her steward as his mistress. The Emperor said that to marry again would have unfairly burdened his children with a stepmother. Throughout the remaining five years of his reign, he continued to pay homage to his wife. In fact, his grief over her loss became legendary. Nearly two hundred years after her death, the Emperor Julian II, who idolized Marcus Aurelius, commented that he had mourned her beyond "what was becoming" though she was "not even a virtuous woman."

As Julian's comment suggests, Faustina has gone down in history as a model of misconduct. Many ancient writers charged her with adultery, treason, and even murder! She was believed to have had innumerable lovers from all levels of society. The historian Sextus Aurelius Victor wrote that she shamelessly cruised for sexual partners among the sailors who worked naked on the beaches of Campania in Italy! Senators as well as gladiators and pantomime actors were said to have been seduced by the Empress. It was believed by many that Commodus, who fought publicly as a gladiator when emperor, was fathered by a gladiator rather than by the dignified Marcus Aurelius. Faustina was rumored to have had an affair with her son-in-law, Lucius Verus, and to have been guilty of his murder.

According to the historians, Marcus was anything but ignorant of his wife's scandalous behavior. The Historia Augusta claims that, during an illness, Faustina confessed to her husband that she had had an affair with a particular gladiator, the supposed father of Commodus. Marcus consulted his soothsayers about what should be done to remove his wife's passion, and they advised him to execute the gladiator and have Faustina bathe in his blood just before lying with her husband! The same source states that the Emperor even caught Faustina breakfasting with one of her high-ranking lovers, and yet promoted him and others like him to high positions.

Paradoxically, the Historia Augusta also says that Marcus was either ignorant or pretended to be ignorant of Faustina's affairs and defended his wife in his letters. The historian reports that, when he was told about her misdeeds and urged to divorce or even kill her, he replied that "If I send her away, I will also have to return her dowry," which, of course, was the Roman Empire (she was the daughter of Marcus' predecessor, Antoninius Pius).

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Date: June 25th, 2018 7:33 AM
Author: Federal Voyeur Elastic Band

"The same source states that the Emperor even caught Faustina breakfasting with one of her high-ranking lovers, and yet promoted him and others like him to high positions."

Alpha Roman: Fucks empress, breakfast.

U: Purell at desk, ***NO BREAKFAST***.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4009708&forum_id=2#36304858)



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Date: June 25th, 2018 7:41 AM
Author: big maroon antidepressant drug trailer park

"sailors who worked naked on the beaches of Campania"

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Date: June 25th, 2018 8:31 AM
Author: Milky fortuitous meteor den

glad someone else caught this juicy morsel !

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4009708&forum_id=2#36304933)



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Date: June 25th, 2018 8:37 AM
Author: pearl frozen location philosopher-king

She even fucked mimes dude. Got to read every word

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4009708&forum_id=2#36304955)



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Date: June 25th, 2018 8:39 AM
Author: crystalline native

Mime chad gesticulating in your wife's face

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Date: June 25th, 2018 8:40 AM
Author: Irradiated sable stain

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Date: June 25th, 2018 9:39 AM
Author: 180 obsidian site codepig

LMAO

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Date: April 3rd, 2019 3:17 AM
Author: apoplectic crimson generalized bond personal credit line



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Date: June 25th, 2018 8:25 AM
Author: crystalline native



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Date: June 25th, 2018 8:29 AM
Author: Mind-boggling Cruel-hearted Haunted Graveyard Karate



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Date: June 25th, 2018 9:38 AM
Author: 180 obsidian site codepig

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Date: June 25th, 2018 9:47 AM
Author: Geriatric burgundy circlehead



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Date: June 25th, 2018 8:34 AM
Author: pearl frozen location philosopher-king

You can tell just by the busts of him in museums that he was a total shrimpdick

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4009708&forum_id=2#36304940)



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Date: June 25th, 2018 8:37 AM
Author: crystalline native

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4009708&forum_id=2#36304951)



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Date: June 25th, 2018 8:38 AM
Author: pearl frozen location philosopher-king

piddle piddle piddle *drip*

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Date: June 25th, 2018 8:39 AM
Author: Irradiated sable stain

Swinging is actually pretty stoic

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4009708&forum_id=2#36304961)



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Date: June 25th, 2018 9:40 AM
Author: Mind-boggling Cruel-hearted Haunted Graveyard Karate



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Date: June 25th, 2018 9:58 AM
Author: red passionate indian lodge



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Date: June 25th, 2018 10:02 AM
Author: Mind-boggling Cruel-hearted Haunted Graveyard Karate



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Date: June 25th, 2018 10:04 AM
Author: red passionate indian lodge



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Date: April 3rd, 2019 3:19 AM
Author: apoplectic crimson generalized bond personal credit line

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Date: June 25th, 2018 12:44 PM
Author: puce goyim



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Date: June 25th, 2018 4:24 PM
Author: Vivacious opaque principal's office alpha



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