He was named for both the beginning and the end. Romulus Augustus—called by many "Augustulus," or "Little Augustus"—was a boy emperor with a name that evoked the founding myth of Rome and the towering legacy of its first princess. Yet, his short and fragile reign marked the final act in a drama centuries in the making—the fall of Rome.
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