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Romulus Augustus was the teenage son of a warlord who had taken over Rome. The eastern empire did not recognize his successor state as Rome, and did not recognize any Emporer after Julius Nepos.

The warlord gave Romulus Augustus that name in an attempt to legitimize his claim to the throne.

It didn’t work. He was overthrown rather quickly. While the warlord was killed, Romulus Augustus himself was considered so irrelevant that they let him live.

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That warlord was Orestes. Funnily enough, he had previously been in the court of Attila the Hun.

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What is this, a crossover episode?

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Augustus Caesar also was an adopted name. I’m not into deadnaming, but he was born Gaius Octavius.

He died in August.

We definitely need better writers.

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It’s pretty common knowledge that God love to reuse plots and love to add easter eggs.

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The last emperor of Rome was Konstantinos Dragatsis Palaiologos, but yes

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