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Loeb Historia Augusta prints a Marcus vita that this dossier refuses as autograph

The Loeb Historia Augusta includes a vita of Marcus mixed with later invention. In the causal graph this event strengthens Institutional Corruption, a driver that strengthens Political corruption index — a worsening welfare path.

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The Loeb Historia Augusta includes a vita of Marcus mixed with later invention. This Fact stores the existence of that unreliable printed vita as a warning-statement: it is a source of opacity, not a verified court diary.

Context

Using HA as if it were minutes is a corruption of the public record. The row exists so that later readers do not smuggle HA anecdotes in as Facts.

Marcus Aurelius is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Marcus Aurelius

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.16 · verified

    Dated act under Marcus as emperor or as later printed subject. Scribes, heirs, editors, and museums share labour.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Loeb Classical Library — Marcus, Dio, FrontoHarvard University Press · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Marcus AureliusStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Confidence is stated on the impact path.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorMarcus Aurelius
  2. contributed toFactLoeb Historia Augusta prints a Marcus vita that this dossier refuses as autograph
  3. strengthensDriverInstitutional Corruption
  4. strengthensIndicatorPolitical corruption index

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Factrail. (2026). Loeb Historia Augusta prints a Marcus vita that this dossier refuses as autograph. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ma-ha-vita-not-autograph

https://factrail.ai/facts/ma-ha-vita-not-autograph

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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