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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 8025000, member: 115909&quot;]To be fair Lucilla did have connections and support that even Commodus didn’t know about.</p><p><br /></p><p>For example she managed to convince Praetorian Prefect <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/Publius_Tarrutenius_Paternus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/Publius_Tarrutenius_Paternus" rel="nofollow">Publius Tarrutenius Paternus</a> into supporting her and having a Praetorian prefect on your side is a huge help. They tended to have influence and manpower behind them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Commodus executed him later.</p><p><br /></p><p>It’s true though that both Commodus &amp; Lucilla would have been at risk if someone else had become Emperor. But I’m not sure if that risk would have applied if it was an adopted son of Marcus Aurelius rather than a random usurper.</p><p><br /></p><p>Apparently Lucilla’s mother Faustina Junior tried to protect Commodus when she thought Marcus had died by urging Avidius Cassius (Praefect of Egypt and 2nd most powerful man in the Empire after Marcus) to claim the Emperorship with her name by his side.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately for them both the rumors of Marcus Aurelius’ death were unfounded and he had just been very sick but he survived and recovered.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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