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

Date: 1921

## The fact

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](/people/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.

## Evidence and sources

Official museum/encyclopedia/agency pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Loeb Classical Library — Marcus, Dio, Fronto (https://www.loebclassics.com/; [Harvard University](/organizations/harvard-university) Press).

## Significance

A bad vita in print is a knowledge-governance harm. Do not quote it as a warrant.

A bad vita in print is a knowledge-governance harm. Do not quote it as a warrant.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is [institutional-corruption](/drivers/institutional-corruption). The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. 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. Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is institutional-corruption. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. 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.

## People

- Marcus Aurelius: https://factrail.ai/people/marcus-aurelius

## Drivers

- Institutional Corruption: https://factrail.ai/drivers/institutional-corruption

## Sources

- https://www.loebclassics.com/
- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/marcus-aurelius/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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