Commodus and the Senate

Commodus turned over administration of the empire to his imperial chamberlain and sometimes male lover, a freedman named satarus. The senate was obviously scandalized that the emperor was handing power over to some freedman lover,. Adsataris was universally despised in the upper classes. This hatred was only heightened when satarus realized that the treasury could not support the promises commodus had made to the people. It wouldn't be the senate who took the first shot at comodus. Nor would that first shot be taken to strike a blow for liberty in the face of despotic tyranny.