The Four Virtues: Echo of Marcus Aurelius (Part 4/12)

Incense hangs beneath the Senate ceiling as Marcus Aurelius watches a ruined man find peace while a powerful governor crumbles from within.

A corruption trial in the Roman Senate becomes Marcus's lesson in distinguishing true virtue from its counterfeits. As beautiful rhetoric masks self-interest and a trembling exile speaks plain truth, Antoninus reveals the four questions that guide every judgment: wisdom, justice, courage, temperance.

146 AD. Marcus Aurelius is 25. Rome.

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