person
Vespasian
Roman emperor (AD 69–79), founder of the Flavian dynasty; Marcus invokes his era as one age, now wholly past, indistinguishable in its round of human business from any other.
Reading notes
- Meditations §4.32.1 Vespasian
Roman emperor AD 69–79; his age, summoned as an example, is one whole generation of ordinary human business now vanished without trace.