Editing Hadrian (section)

===Poem by Hadrian===
According to the ''[[Historia Augusta]]'', Hadrian composed the following poem shortly before his death:<ref>Historia Augusta, ''Hadrian'' Dio [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Historia_Augusta/Hadrian/2*.html#25.9 25.9]; Antony Birley, p. 301</ref>

:{{lang|la|[[Animula vagula blandula]]}}
:{{lang|la|Hospes comesque corporis}}
:{{lang|la|Quae nunc abibis in loca}}
:{{lang|la|Pallidula, rigida, nudula,}}
:{{lang|la|Nec, ut soles, dabis iocos...}}

:::P. Aelius Hadrianus Imp.

:''Roving amiable little soul,''
:''Body's companion and guest,''
:''That now will leave to places''
:''Colourless, unbending, and bare''
:''Your usual distractions no more shall be there...''

The poem has enjoyed remarkable popularity,<ref>see e.g.[http://coldewey.cc/post/17072720047/forty-three-translations-of-hadrians-animula Forty-three translations of Hadrian's "Animula, vagula, blandula ..." ] including translations by Henry Vaughan, A. Pope, Lord Byron.</ref><ref>A.A. Barb, [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0015587X.1950.9717969?journalCode=rfol20 "Animula, Vagula, Blandula"], Folklore, 61, 1950 : "... since [[Casaubon]] almost three and a half centuries of classical scholars have admired this poem"</ref> but uneven critical acclaim.<ref>see Note 2 in Emanuela Andreoni Fontecedro's {{JSTOR|20547373}} "Animula vagula blandula: Adriano debitore di Plutarco", Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica, 1997</ref> According to Aelius Spartianus, the alleged author of Hadrian's biography in the ''Historia Augusta'', Hadrian "wrote also similar poems in Greek, not much better than this one".<ref>"tales autem nec multo meliores fecit et Graecos", Historia Augusta, ibidem</ref> [[T. S. Eliot]]'s poem "Animula" may have been inspired by Hadrian's, though the relationship is not unambiguous.<ref>Russell E. Murphy, [https://books.google.com/books?id=thqU29nSVgUC&pg=PA48 Critical Companion to T. S. Eliot: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work], 2007. p. 48</ref>