Given a premise, retrieve a hypothesis that is entailed by the premise.The situation stabilized with Vespasian, and the second century A.D. is often considered the golden age of the empire (Gibbon himself says that the time of Marcus Aurelius--late second century--was the best time to live of all in history).
The second century is widely known as a great period for the empire.
The empire had never had a period of greatness, or golden age.