[10] His prowess provoked the jealousy of the Roman emperor Commodus.
[11] Commodus ordered Alexander to be hunted down and killed in Emesa c.
[12] Alexander could have escaped from Commodus’ soldiers, but lost time because he didn't want to leave behind his youthful male lover, who was himself an excellent horseman.
Alexander was buried in the Emesan dynastic tomb in Emesa.
[14] Julius Alexander is mentioned in the histories of Cassius Dio and in the Historia Augusta, in The Life of Commodus.