Greetings all,
Today
we commemorate with sadness the removal of Romulus Augustus as the
final Emperor of the Western Emperor on September 4th in 476 AD:
Popularly
known as "Romulus Augustulus" because of his young age, his life was
actually spared by the barbarian general Ordoacer. Romulus was granted a
stipend equal to the annual income of a wealthy Senator, and he retired
to the Villa of Lucullus in Naples. Little is known of his life after
that. It is commonly thought he may have eventually become a monk, and
he may well have lived to see the return of Roman rule to Italy when the
Byzantines returned in the time of Justinian the Great.
-Marcus Cassius Julianus
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