Pertinax, who is serving as urban prefect…

Pertinax, who is serving as urban prefect at this time, is hurried to the Praetorian Camp and proclaimed emperor the morning after Commodus’ assassination had been carried out.

The Senate declares Commodus a public enemy (a de facto damnatio memoriae) and restores the original name to the city of Rome and its institutions.

Commodus' statues are thrown down and his body buried in the Mausoleum of Hadrian.

Ancient writers detail how the Praetorian Guard expected a generous donativum on the ascension of Pertinax, and when they were disappointed, agitated until he produced the money, selling off Commodus' property, including the concubines and youths Commodus kept for his sexual pleasures.