Commodus Antoninus 9

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. His mistress, who afterwards conspired against him; see c xvii. 1.
2. Called chiridotae Dalmatarum in Pert, viii. 2. It was a long-sleeved tunic reaching to the knee. Dio describes it (lxxii. 17, 2) as made of white silk with gold threads.
3. See note to c. viii. 5.
4. An Egyptian deity regarded as the protector of corpses and tombs and represented with the head of a jackal, or, by the Greeks and Romans, with that of a dog. His cult was often combined with that of Isis, and according to Juvenal
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