↑ Ông có tên khai sinh là Marcus Annius Catilius Severus (hoặc có thể là Marcus Catilius Severus).[1] Khi lấy vợ, ông có tên là Marcus Annius Verus,[2] và khi lên ngôi hoàng đế, ông được đặt tên là Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. Ông được biết đến trong tiếng Pháp là Marc-Aurèle.[3]
↑ Cassius Dio asserts that the Annii were near-kin of Hadrian, and that it was to these familial ties that they owed their rise to power.[34] The precise nature of these kinship ties is nowhere stated. One conjectural bond runs through Annius Verus (II). Verus' wife Rupilia Faustina was the daughter of the consular senator Libo Rupilius Frugi and an unnamed mother. It has been hypothesized Rupilia Faustina's mother was Matidia, who was also the mother (presumably through another marriage) of Vibia Sabina, Hadrian's wife.[35]
↑ Farquharson kể rằng ông mất vào năm 130, khi Marcus Aurelius đã 9 tuổi.[42]
↑ Nguyên văn HA Marcus viết là "Eutychius", nhưng Birley chỉnh sửa thành "Tuticius".[57]
↑ Others put a harsher light on Hadrian's nickname. McLynn calls it an example of Hadrian's waspish (McLynn says "vespine") wit and adduces it in support of his contention that Marcus was a "prig".[65]
↑ Birley, following the textual and epigraphic citations, concludes that he might only have seen Rome in 127, briefly in 128, and in 131.[67]
↑ Commodus was a known consumptive at the time of his adoption, so Hadrian may have intended Marcus' eventual succession anyways.[76]
