Lucilla

, a daughter of Marcus Aurelius, celebrated for the virtues of her youth, her beauty, debaucheries, and misfortunes. At the age of 16 her father sent her to Syria to marry the emperor Verus, who was then employed in a war with the Parthians and ♦ Armenians. The conjugal virtues of Lucilla were great at first, but when she saw Verus plunge himself into debauchery and di ipation, she followed his example and prostituted herself. At her return to Rome she saw the incestuous commerce of her husband with her mother, . , and at last poisoned him. She afterwards married an old but virtuous senator, by order of her father, and was not ashamed soon to gratify the criminal sensualities of her brother Commodus. The coldne and indifference with which Commodus treated her afterwards determined her on revenge, and she with many illustrious senators conspired against his life A.D. 185. The plot was discovered, Lucilla was banished, and soon after put to death by her brother, in the 38th year of her age. ♦ ‘Arminians’ replaced with ‘Armenians’