# Commodus concludes a settlement on the Danube and returns to Rome, ending Marcus’s last war as received

Date: 180

## The fact

In 180 [Commodus](/people/commodus) made terms on the Danube and left the front for Rome as received. This Fact is that settlement-and-return instrument, not a unique treaty bronze in this catalog and not Dio’s moral about laziness as a finding.

It is one event.

## Context

Ending a long war can spare levies and border killing. It can also leave a frontier unfinished.

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.

Hostile sources call the peace a luxury-driven abandonment. A stopped frontier war is still a humanitarian pause. Terms are imperfectly known. He is the named closer of the war, not the author of every later raid.

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

Britannica and Herodian independently record the 180 return and the end of Marcus’s last northern war.

Official or archival record: Britannica — Commodus (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Commodus; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

A dated halt to a frontier war is a [humanitarian-access](/drivers/humanitarian-access) path. Confidence medium on terms, high on the return to Rome.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 180 Danubian settlement and return as received. Not established: that pressing the war would have uniquely saved the third century.

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 `humanitarian-access` is attached because the mechanism named in Significance follows from this instrument, not because a standing list of welfare headings needed another tick. 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. A peace is not a damnatio. Split later senatorial hatred from this autumn. 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

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://www.livius.org/sources/content/herodian-s-roman-history/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Commodus

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/com-marcomannic-settlement-180