Would Marcus have gotten better results from bribing the invaders, like Commodus did? Scholar Pierre Hadot apparently endorses Marcus and descendants risking th

Would Marcus have gotten better results from bribing the invaders, like Commodus did? Scholar Pierre Hadot apparently endorses Marcus and descendants risking their life for 400 years at Roman frontiers. The five good emperors were not sons of their emperor. Marcus offered Caesar title to Pomeianus, a great general who didnt have nepotism to back his rise, married Marcus's daughter Lucilla and provided the inspiration to Maximus in Gladiator. He refused it the three times it was offered. We could have had six good emperors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberius_Claudius_Pompeianus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberius_Claudius_Pompeianus