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Aurelius actually gets a decent amount of flak from historians and contemporaries, for various reasons. A later Emperor, Septimius Severus, even called him gutless for not having it in him to kill his son, Commodus, for the good of the Empire.
Aurelius is a good Emperor, and the last of the Five Good Emperors, but far from unhated.