Example sentences for: aurelius

How can you use “aurelius” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The grand bronze equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius that anchors the piazza’s center is a copy; the restored original from the second century a.d. is sheltered within the Palazzo Nuovo museum to its left.

  • A cost-conscious Senate took fragments from monuments of earlier rulers Trajan, Hadrian, and Marcus Aurelius to decorate the arch.

  • Gibbon straightforwardly observes at one point, for instance, that the emperor Marcus Aurelius thanked the gods in his Meditations for giving him a wife "so faithful, so gentle, and of such a wonderful simplicity of manners."

  • I think this is her greatest achievement--Petronius meets Marcus Aurelius in mid-century New York--but it is best appreciated after some immersion in her life and work.


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