After a year, Hadrian returned, to find that the senate was strongly against him for ordering the deaths of four of their most powerful deaths-Although there was no proof directly connecting him to the action. ... Hadrian's profitable political tactics also led him to change Roman law. He authorized a reform of Roman law and appointed a distinguished jurist to institute a permanent code by which all magistrates had to abide. ... Hadrian was never at good terms with the Senate and preferred to take advice from a council of experts, but they continued with little input as Hadrian's pop...

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