21. What was the consequence of this division?

22. Relate the particulars of his death.

FOOTNOTES:

[1]

Com'modus was the first emperor that was born in his father's reign, and the second that succeeded his father in the empire.

[2]

Being offended by the Alexan'drians, he commanded them to be put to the sword without distinction of sex, age, or condition; every house was filled with carcases, and the streets were obstructed with dead bodies; this was merely in revenge for some lampoons they had published against him.

[3]

A city of Bithyn'ia, in Asia Minor, opposite to Constantinople.

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