Commodus, Lucius Aurelius (Com`modus, Lucius Aurelius) , 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.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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