Lucius Aurelius Commodus

Lucius Aurelius Commodus (161 – 192) was Roman emperor, son and successor of Marcus Aurelius. He was carefully trained, but on his father's death threw up the reins and gave himself over to every form of licentiousness. In 182, his sister Lucilla convinced Marcia to join a plot with Quadratus to kill Commodus, but the plot was discovered and both Lucilla and Quadratus were executed. Marcia managed to escape, and later became Commodus' concubine after his wife Bruttia Crispina was exiled and murdered for adultery. Marcia poisoned him, but he vomited. Poison administered by his mistress Marcia being slow in operating, he was strangled to death by a hired athlete in 192.

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