Commodus

American  

[kom-uh-duhs] / ˈkɒm ə dəs /

noun

1. Lucius Aelius Aurelius a.d. 161–192, Roman emperor 180–192; son and successor of Marcus Aurelius.

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Commodus British  

/ kəˈməʊdəs, ˈkɒmədəs /

noun

1. Lucius Aelius Aurelius (ˈluːsɪəs ˈiːlɪəs ɔːˈriːlɪəs), son of Marcus Aurelius. 161–192 _ad , Roman emperor (180–192), noted for his tyrannical reign

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Example Sentences

Childless and conscious that his imperial predecessors had selected their successors by means of adoption, Hadrian adopted a man in his 50s, who became Antoninus, and instructed that man to adopt, in turn, the 16-year-old Marcus, along with another child, Lucius Ceionius Commodus.

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In the end five daughters survived but only one son, to whom Marcus had given a now-infamous name: Commodus.

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He chose to favor biology over meritocracy and anointed Commodus as his heir when the boy was only 5 years old.

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Commodus, now a teenager, had shown he had none of his father’s nature; he so preferred athletics to statecraft that some believed he’d been sired by a gladiator.

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Yet Marcus made Commodus co-emperor in 177.

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