But Pertinax was created emperor against the wishes of the soldiers, who, being accustomed to live licentiously under Commodus, could not endure the honest life to which Pertinax wished to reduce them; thus, having given cause for hatred, to which hatred there was added contempt for his old age, he was overthrown at the very beginning of his administration.
Ma Pertinace fu creato imperatore contro alla voglia de' soldati, li quali, sendo usi a vivere licenziosamente sotto Commodo, non poterono sopportare quella vita onesta alla quale Pertinace li voleva ridurre; onde, avendosi creato odio, et a questo odio aggiunto el disprezzo sendo vecchio ruinò ne' primi principii della sua amministrazione.