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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 26069913, member: 10461&quot;]You&#039;ve gotta hand it to Vespasian, though.&nbsp; He might&#039;ve died of a fatal case of diarrhea, but the ol&#039; guy still managed to go out with a measure of dignity, cracking a joke with his final words.&nbsp; (He reputedly had a good sense of humor.)</p><p><br /></p><p>He is supposed to have said, <i>Vae, puto deus fio!&nbsp; </i>Which roughly translates to &quot;<i>Oh dear, I think I am becoming a god!</i>&quot;.&nbsp; Which was a pithy comment about the Roman practice of deifying their dead emperors.</p><p><br /></p><p>And he was right.&nbsp; Sure enough, here he is, on a posthumous coin in my collection.&nbsp; In the coin&#039;s legend he is declared <i>Divus</i> Vespasian, &quot;divus&quot; meaning &quot;god&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>So you might croak from a case of the runs, but that needn&#039;t prevent you from attaining divinity.</p><p><br /></p><p>(For those who have trouble reading jumbled Roman coin inscriptions, the obverse bears the legend DIVVS AVGVSTVS VESPASIANVS.)</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://img.colleconline.com/artefactimg/fce2382df96e4e178fd8741fc4cb7cd0/63e7ea2ce7c242b58974b3a38534a4ee.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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