This is all true and you can look it up: A long time ago Marcus Aurelius was an emperor who did a fair to middling job of being the supreme leader of the Roman Empire. Then he died and his son, Lucius Aurelius Commodus, stepped in to fill the shoes of Marcus Aurelius. Well, history shows that the son, Commodus, wasn't quite up to snuff as an emperor, and soon he was spending too much of the Empire's money and exploiting too many of its fighting legions, etc., plus Commodus was a bit of an odd duck to boot. He liked to dress up and parade around as a gladiator, making a fool of himself and the throne upon which he was supposed to be sitting! The Roman Senate became very disappointed in the younger emperor, then bored with him and at last annoyed to death with him. He had turned out to be "The Cul-de-sac Emperor." Commodus finally lost his supporters, his throne and his "health." In other words, Lucius Aurelius Commodus, the son, didn't serve a "second term."

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