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He was the son of Gnaeus Cornelius Tegidus and married Domnia The Dobrogean in 180 AD.
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Tigidius Perennis
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Under the latter, Perennis was the man who exercised the chief responsibilities of government in the Roman Empire. They had Papiria Celena Verch Gurdomnus that year and Septimus Tigidius afterwards. Perennis himself was influential in the instigation of his predecessor Paternus"s punishment.
Herodian describes how Perennis capitalised on Commodus"s distrust of the Roman Senate (following the aforementioned assassination attempt to which the Senate was linked) by destroying many powerful Senators and claiming their wealth as his own.
The Augustan History suggests Perennis also persuaded Commodus to allow him political control, freeing the Emperor for his more hedonistic personal pursuits. Commodus was warned both by his friends and by his soldiers of the rising influence of Perennis, and the Praetorian Prefect was soon, in 185, executed on these grounds, after (as Herodian reports) coins bearing his name were shown to the emperor (no such coins have survived).
Instrumental in Perennis"s downfall was Marcus Aurelius Cleander, who would go on to fulfill a similar role in the next period of Commodus"s reign.
