The Zhongchangshi Cao Jie forged an edict and killed the Grand Tutor Chen Fan and the Grand General Dou Wu and others, exterminated their clans, and moved the Empress Dowager to the Southern Palace. (Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals 後漢書卷8 孝靈帝紀 建寧1年)
The two emperors set out in military dress and march as far as Aquileia; as several kings withdraw, they cross the Alps and finish fortifying Italy and Illyricum (Historia Augusta Marc. 14.1, 14.2, 14.6)
Amid a spreading plague, he subdues the Marcomanni, Sarmatians, Vandals and Quadi, frees Pannonia, and celebrates a triumph in Rome with Commodus (Historia Augusta Marc. 17.2, 17.3)
When the Germanic war breaks out, the two emperors go to the front together, reach Aquileia and cross the Alps; at Aquileia Lucius does nothing but hunt and feast (Historia Augusta Ver. 9.7, 9.8)