 After initial involvement in the Marcomannic Wars, he fell ill and died in 169.He was deified by the Roman Senate as the Divine Verus ("Divus Verus").Born Lucius Ceionius Commodus on 15 December 130, Verus was the first-born son of Avidia Plautia and Lucius Aelius Caesar, the first adopted son and heir of Emperor Hadrian.