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The emperor, after the successful suppression of …

Years: 176 - 176

The emperor, after the successful suppression of Cassius' revolt, returns to Rome for the first time in nearly eight years of expensive and largely ineffective campaigns against the Marcomanni and other Danubian tribes.

Marcus Aurelius is the first emperor since Vespasian to have a son of his own and, though he himself is the fifth in the line of the so-called Five Good Emperors who had each adopted their successor, it seems to have been his firm intention that Commodus should be his heir.

Marcus Aurelius grants Commodus the rank of Imperator on November 27, 176.