A history of Rome for junior classes : with a map of Italy and ample chronological table . COXW OF ANTOMIHDS COIN OF UaKCUS aureuus. CHAPTER XYI. THE REIGN OF COMMODUS. CONCLUSION, 180 TO 192. After having purcliasecl peace of the Germans, Com-modiis hastened to Rome to give himself \i]) 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 Lipon him. During the first two years, his realcharacter did not appear, and it was hoped that after allhe mi
A history of Rome for junior classes : with a map of Italy and ample chronological table . COXW OF ANTOMIHDS COIN OF UaKCUS aureuus. CHAPTER XYI. THE REIGN OF COMMODUS. CONCLUSION, 180 TO 192. After having purcliasecl peace of the Germans, Com-modiis hastened to Rome to give himself \i]) 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 Lipon him. During the first two years, his realcharacter did not appear, and it was hoped that after allhe might be better than his reputation. But a conspiracywhich his own sister foinned against him, in 183,suddenly produced the most extraordinary change, for theremaining period of his reign was an uninterrupted suc-cession 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 brutal debaucheries,while the business of the state was left to the lowest andmost contemptible cr
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