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Com`modus, Lucius Aurelius
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Roman emperor, son and successor of Marcus Aurelius; carefully trained, but on his father's death threw up the reins and gave himself over to every form of licentiousness; poison administered by his mistress Marcia being slow in operating, he was strangled to death by a hired athlete in 162.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Com`modus, Lucius Aurelius'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/c/commodus-lucius-aurelius.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.