. A history of Rome with a map of Italy and ample chronological table . COIN OF ANIOMNUS COIN OF MARCUS CHAPTER XVL THE REIGN OF COMMODUS.— 180 TO 192. After having purchased peace of the Germans, Corn-modus hastened to Rome to give himself up to thepleasures and licentiousness of the capital. He was notyet twenty years old, and had received a careful educa-tion ; but this, as well as the noble example of his father,was lost apon him. During the first two years, his realcharacter did not appear, and it was liojied that after allhe might be better than his r
. A history of Rome with a map of Italy and ample chronological table . COIN OF ANIOMNUS COIN OF MARCUS CHAPTER XVL THE REIGN OF COMMODUS.— 180 TO 192. After having purchased peace of the Germans, Corn-modus hastened to Rome to give himself up to thepleasures and licentiousness of the capital. He was notyet twenty years old, and had received a careful educa-tion ; but this, as well as the noble example of his father,was lost apon him. During the first two years, his realcharacter did not appear, and it was liojied that after allhe might be better than his reputation. But a conspiracywhich his own sister formed against him, in 183,suddenly produced the most extraordinary change, for the Semaining period of his reign was an uninterrupted suc-ession of sanguinary and disgusting excesses. The bestfriends and advisers of his father were put to death, andCommodus abandoned himself without the slightest senseof shame to the coarsest vices and biutal debaucheries,while the business of the state was left to the lowest andmost contemptible creat
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