Wednesday, September 4, 2024

 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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