# Crispina is banished and later killed on adultery charges as Dio prints it

Date: 188

## The fact

Dio records Crispina’s banishment and killing. Livius independently notes her exile in the reign chronology.

It is one event.

## Context

Killing a wife on adultery allegation is a rights-and-justice harm heading. Shared court enemies remain. Do not treat HA sexual sensationalism as extra Facts.

Commodus’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Dio: Commodus put Crispina to death after anger over alleged adultery; both she and Lucilla had been banished to Capreae before execution. Livius places Crispina’s exile in the late-reign cluster. Allegation of adultery remains allegation in a hostile literary file.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file.

## Evidence and sources

Cassius Dio Book 73 (Loeb English) — Commodus and Livius — Commodus independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Cassius Dio Book 73 (Loeb English) — Commodus (https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/73*.html; LacusCurtius / University of Chicago).

## Significance

Crispina’s fall is a rights-harm path of high confidence that the tradition records exile-and-death, medium on the underlying charge.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a sourced public record of this instrument at the date assigned here.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Commodus.

They are not a public rating.

The driver `protection-of-minority-rights` is attached because the mechanism named in Significance follows from this instrument, not because a standing list of welfare headings needed another tick. [Commodus](/people/commodus) did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Allegation stays allegation. Split from 178 marriage. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Commodus.

## People

- Commodus: https://factrail.ai/people/commodus

## Drivers

- Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights

## Sources

- https://www.livius.org/articles/person/commodus/
- https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/73*.html

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/com-crispina-exile-death