Editing Commodus (section)

==== The conspiracy ====
In 182, a group of members of the imperial family gathered around their sister Annia Aurelia Galeria Lucilla (the daughter of her first marriage, a nephew, her paternal cousin Marcus Numidio Quadratus and the sister of the latter Numidia Cornificia Faustina) planned the assassination of Commodus imagining to see Lucilla and her husband as the new rulers of Rome. Quintinian's nephew broke from his hiding place with a dagger trying to hit Commodus revealing his intention before he even acted. then, the guards overwhelmed him and disarmed him without even being able to hurt the emperor. Commodus ordered his death sentence and that of Marco Numidio Quadrato. Lucilla, her daughter and Numidia Cornificia Faustina were exiled to the island of Capri (a year later Commodus sent a centurion to Capri to kill the three women).