Commodus Antoninus 17

ed. David Magie

Commodus Antoninus. . ed. David Magie. London. 1922.

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Current edition Perseus

Commodus Antoninus (Scriptores Historiae Augustae, Volume 1. Magie, David, editor. London, New York: William Heinemann, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.)

Notes on the current edition

Commodus Antoninus

1. See note to Ver., iv, 8.
2. The story of the murder is given in greater detail by Dio, lxxii. 22, 4, and especially by Herodian, i. 16-17. Eclectus was also one of the conspirators; see c. xv. 2.
3. It was customary to fasten a hook to the bodies of condemned criminals and thus drag them to the Tiber. The populace had demanded that this should be done to the body of Tiberius (Suetonius, Tiberius, lxv. 1).
4. Cf. c xx. 1, and Dio, lxxiii. 2, 1. For his sepulchral inscription see G.I.L., vi. 992 = Dessau, Ins. Sel, 401.
5. The Thermae Commodianae; their exact site is unknown.
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