No wonder Hadrian feared the Picts.
Hadrian just didn’t like the idea of leading (from the rear) troops into battle. He only liked bangin’ boys in the ass and collecting new taxes. His adopted father Trajan was one of, if not the, greatest Roman conquerors, perhaps a difficult act to follow, but that’s not why Hadrian built a rootless Roman city at the site of the drowning of his catamite.