ABSTRACT
The friends of Marcus Aurelius accepted the wishes of the dead emperor, and presented his son Commodus to the army in the camp. Commodus undertook that the Romans should pay subsidies, and announced that he was prepared to evacuate all Roman troops from the territories across the Danube frontier which Marcus Aurelius had occupied. The Roman garrison in Armenia Minor put up an inscription to celebrate a piece of construction. Frontier forts, and roads, and baths were constructed, in addition to the Baths of Cleander at Rome. But Commodus has been accused of having his name inscribed upon buildings that others had set up. Before long, in 183, this anti-senatorial tendency was gready intensified when Commodus blamed the senate for a plot against his life. Commodus believed Quintianus when he ascribed the intended assassination to the senate as a whole, and forever afterwards he regarded the senate as against him.
