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As the title says. Let's say Marcus and Lucius swap death-dates, so that Marcus dies in 169 AD and Lucius dies in 180 AD, with Lucius succeeded by his son (also named Lucius Verus), who is handwaved into surviving his infancy. Would a surviving Lucius Verus make much of a difference to the affairs of the Empire between 169-180 AD and beyond, or did its long-term trends mean that the military anarchy just around the corner was inevitable anyway, Commodus or no?

Meditations is, of course, butterflied away, but could Stoicism persist?
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