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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drusus, post: 206442, member: 6370&quot;]He is the son or Orestes <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Odavacar killed Romulus&#039; father Orestes (the real ruler). Romulus didnt flee nor did he fight as he was just a figurehead of Orestes...Odavacar didnt kill him (after just 10 months as puppet emperor) because he was of no consequence and this says a LOT...because if Odavacar thought Romulus was in ANY WAY a threat (like Nepos would have been)...he would have been dead. He was just a kid on a throne, he had no power, the fact Odavacar didnt kill him just goes to illustrate how inconsequential he was to the situation...he was no threat at all...not only that but there was no fear he would ever be a threat down the line as he grew older...he was completely powerless...he couldnt have been much more than 16 years of age. Hardly a powerful or heroic figure...Nepos on the other hand WAS an adult and fled because he was completely over powered and in the hopes that he could muster a force to return and retake the throne with the help of the eastern emperor...not that he was any more admirable...he was a sad figure as well. The only strong figures were Orestes and Odavacar and he dispensed of pretense and just ruled as a king after killing Orestes.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In fact...some accounts dont even mention Romulus when telling of the event of Odavacars take over:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Cassiodorus stated, &quot;In this year, Orestes and his brother Paulus were killed by Odovacar, and Odovacar assumed the title of King, although he made use of neither the purple nor the imperial regalia&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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