01-03-2011, 09:11 AM
December 31, 192 AD: Death of Lucius Aurelius Commodus Antoninus (b. 31 August 161), Roman Emperor from 180 to 192. His mistress Marcia poisoned his food but he vomited up the poison; so the conspirators sent his wrestling partner Narcissus to strangle him in his bath. Upon his death, the Senate declared him a public enemy (a de facto damnatio memoriae) and restored the original name to the city of Rome and its institutions. Commodus' statues were thrown down. His body was buried in the Mausoleum of Hadrian.
December 31, 535 AD: Belisarius completes the conquest of Sicily by defeating the Gothic garrison of Syracuse.
December 31, 535 AD: Belisarius completes the conquest of Sicily by defeating the Gothic garrison of Syracuse.
Robert Vermaat
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
