Note 41 — Chapter XXXIX · A HALF CENTURY OF DECLINE: COMMODUS TO ALEXANDER SEVERUS
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Herodiand tells us of a list of those destined to be put to death taken by a child, and read by Marcia, as in the case of Domitian. But he is a very inaccurate writer, and Dione, who was a senator and in Rome at the time, could hardly have been ignorant of the circumstance if it were true.