"Commodus, from his early years, showed aversion to all liberal sciences and arts, and excessive love for the entertainment of the populace, the games of the circus and the amphitheatre, the gladiator fights, and the hunting of wild beasts. The masters of every science, which Marcus Aurelius procured for his son, were listened to with inattention and boredom; while the Moors and Parthians, who trained him to throw the dart and shoot the bow, found in him an attentive pupil, who soon equaled his most skilled teachers in the correctness of his aim and the dexterity of his hand."
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