Note 006
From Chapter 4 of the Decline & Fall

Commodus was the first Porphyrogenetus (born since his father's accession to the throne). By a new strain of flattery, the Egyptian medals date by the years of his life, as if they were synonymous to those of his reign. Tillemont, Hist. des Empereurs, tom. ii. p. 752.

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