Verus

a primipili centurio, A. D. 69. (Tac. Hist. 3.22.)

whose other name is sometimes written Vmidius (Capitol. Anton. Pius, 100.12), and sometimes Vinidius, which different modes of writing have clearly arisen from the confusion between the first stroke of an m and the letter i. He is apparently the jurist who is cited by Maecianus, lib. ix. Fideicom. (Dig. 35. tit. 2. s. 32.4) under the name of " Vindius noster ;" and if he be the same, Vinidius is probably the true name. He was one of the jurists who were in the consilium of Antoninus Pius, with Ulpius Marcellus, Volusius Maecianus, and others. He is cited twice by Ulpian, and once by Paulus. He probably wrote something, but there is no excerpt in the Digest. [G.L]

the son of the emperor M. Aurelius and Faustina, was born A. D. 163, two years after Commodus and his twin brother Antoninus Geminus. Antoninus died A. D. 165, and the two surviving princes, Verus and Commodus, were raised to the rank of Caesares, in October, A. D. 166, at the request of L. Aurelius Verus on his return from the East in that year. Annius Verus did not enjoy his dignity long, for he died at Praeneste, A. D. 170, in the seventh year of his age, in consequence of the excision of a tumour under his ear, when his father was on the point of setting out on his expedition against the Marcomanni. The annexed coin has on the obverse the head of Annius Verus with ANNIVS VERVS CAES. ANTONINI AVG. FIL., and on the reverse, the head of Commodus, with COMMODVS CAES. ANTONINI AVG. FIL. (Capitol. Antonin. Phil. 12, 21 ; Lamprid. Commod. 1, 11; Eckhel, vol. vii. p. 82, foll.)

The colleague of M. Aurelius in the Empire, A.D. 161-169. He was born in 130, and his original name was L. Ceionius Commodus, was adopted by Hadrian in 136; and on the death of his father in 138, he was, in pursuance of the command of Hadrian, adopted, along with M. Aurelius, by M. Antoninus. On the death of Antoninus in 161, Verus succeeded him as emperor in conjunction with Marcus Aurelius. As to the events of his rule see Aurelius. He died in A.D. 169.