<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodus" id="mwGQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Commodus">Commodus</a> becomes sole <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_emperor" id="mwGg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Roman emperor">emperor</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire" id="mwGw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Roman Empire">Roman Empire</a> at the age of eighteen, following the death of his father, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius" id="mwHA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Marcus Aurelius">Marcus Aurelius</a>.<sup about="#mwt15" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"}}' id="cite_ref-1" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_17#cite_note-1" id="mwHQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwHg">[1]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"><cite about="#mwt12" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFWilliam_E._Dunstan2010">William E. Dunstan (16 November 2010). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=xkOhwFzz1AkC&amp;pg=PA397" id="mwBmk" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBmo">Ancient Rome</i></a>. Rowman &amp; Littlefield Publishers. p.<span id="mwBms" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>397. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBmw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBm0" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-0-7425-6834-1" id="mwBm4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7425-6834-1"><bdi id="mwBm8">978-0-7425-6834-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt12" class="Z3988" id="mwBnA" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Ancient+Rome&amp;rft.pages=397&amp;rft.pub=Rowman+%26+Littlefield+Publishers&amp;rft.date=2010-11-16&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-7425-6834-1&amp;rft.au=William+E.+Dunstan&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DxkOhwFzz1AkC%26pg%3DPA397&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMarch+17"></span></span>