Last Words of Ancient Roman Emperors 

"100% of Roman emperors died" Not true Julius, Augustus, Trajan, Marcus Aurelius, Diocletian and Constantine were seen alive some days ago in Rome.

If you ever feel bad at your job, remember the praetorian guard had one SIMPLE job, and failed miserably

Assassinated by his successor, a natural cause of death to the roman emperors.

There is nobody more trustworthy than a Praetorian Guard

Someone: *becomes Roman emperor* Praetorians: "Your free trial of being alive has expired!"

_“What are you gonna do? Stab me?”_

"Look to the rising sun, for I am setting" really nice quote

Augustus' last words are incredibly epic and true.

I too want as an epitaph on my tombstone “assassinated by the praetorian guards”

Praetorian Guards: " Hail Steve, Hail Caesar!" Me: "Um....no thanks, guys, this job's a bit too dangerous".

Imperial Roulette: 1. Assassination 2. Execution 3. Suicide 4. Death in battle 5. Illness 6. Lightning

I wonder if Ancient Romans had conspiracy theories about how "(insert Emperor here) didn't kill himself".

Commodus last words were: *violent drowning noises*

Roman Emperor: You got a lot of nerve coming in here Praetorian Guard: You got a lot of nerve being alive

The irony of Romulus Augustulus' name is that he is named after Romulus, the first king and founder of Rome & Augustus the first Roman emperor.

So while Caesar had something dramatic, Vitellius had something tragic, and Vespian claimed he was becoming a god; Claudius's last words were apparently him claiming that he had shit himself?? Damn, that's an embarrassing legacy to have.

These guards are killing almost every second emperor. Aren't they supposed to protect them? 😅

Elagabalus was a hilariously terrible emperor. He was known to "prank" his subjects by doing things like giving them rocks painted like grapes, hiding lions in rooms, and even having a lottery where you could win a slave, or poisonous snakes.

After Marcus said his last words, Rome began to set

Augustus Caesar - “ Who let the dogs out? Who? Who? Who?”

Legionaries: "who has the best KD here?" Praetorian guard: "i do" Legionaries: "Team kills dont count"

7:10 imagine your predecessors dying because of assassinations, suicides, wars, and then you die "struck by lightning"

Weren't Augustus's last words: 'Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.'

Leading cause of death of the late Roman emperors: killed by the Praetorian guard/their soldiers. Also Julian the Apostate's last words might be about Jesus.

My ex girlfriend would have been a great pretorian

Titus: I have made but one mistake Hadrian: yeah i burned it to the ground, you're welcome.

I think we have all learned a lesson here.... The Praetorian Guard....... Bad idea.

Claudius final words: "Uh oh, stinky, poop!"

I believe the Gordian emporers found themselves in a knot.

Aurelian will be vindicated. Restorer of the world.

7:11 Carus, Struck by lightning? Explains the shocked expression on his coin.

Seeing no last words for trajan and hadrian sadness me

I'm still amazed how we know all this stuff

Ted Bundy: Im the most famous killer! Praetorian Guard: *Hold my beer.*

"What are you going to do, stab me?" -Julius Caesar

the whole video: melancholic music end card: junglebook

There is evidence that Romulus Augustulus survived and was in exile. Only a single letter with pension from the monarch that deposed him some 30 years later. It'd be nice to know that not all Emperors, especially a 16 year old, were brutally murdered.

remarkable how Rome endured even with so many short-lived, short reigning or plain incompetent rulers.

Julius Caesar age of death: 56 (assassinated) Augustus: 49 (Unknown, typical Roman Emperor assassination?) Tiberius: 89 (Natural causes, assassination, my bet is on natural causes he was super old) Caligula: 29 (assassinated) Claudius: 74 (Agrippa killed him to get Nero on the throne, baaaadd choice, woman!) Nero: 31 (became emperor at 17) (assisted Suicide) Galba: 75 (lasted one year before being assassinated) Otho: 37 (ruled 3 months, suicide) Vitellius: 54 (ruled 9 months, assassinated) 69 AD had three emperors! Vespasian: 70 (ruled 10 years, natural causes, the first emperor to die without assassination or suicide) Titus: 42 (fever) Domitian: 45, (back to assassinating emperors!) Nerva: 68 (stroke and fever) Trajan: 64 (stroke and edema) Hadrian: 62 (natural causes) Antoninus Pius: 75 (illness) Lucius Verus: 39 (smallpox) Marcus Aurelius: 59 (Natural causes) Commodus: 31 (assassination) Pertinax: 67 (ruled 2 months, assassination) Didius Julianus: 60 (ruled 4 months, killed by angry soldier) Septimius Severus: 66 (Infectious disease) Geta: 22 (assassinated by Caracalla his own brother) Caracalla: 29 (assassinated) apparently their dad's final words fell in deaf ears. Caracalla's bust makes him look super evil. Macrinus: c. 53 (executed) Diadumenian: 10 (executed along with his dad) Elagabalus: 20 (assassination) Severus Alexander: 27 (assassinated) Maximinus Thrax: 65 (Assassinated, reported to be a Giant) Gordian I: 79 (one month, suicide) Gordian II: 46 (one month, co-rule with dad, Gordian; killed in battle) Pupienus: 71 (ruled three months with Balbinus, killed by general) Balbinus: 60 (co-ruled with Pupienus, killed by general) (6 emperors ruled in 238 AD!) Gordian III: 19 (ruled on 238 AD at age 13, killed in battle or murdered) Philip the Arab: 45 (assassinated by Decius) Philip II: 12 (co-ruled with dad, Philip, killed by general) Decius: 50 (died in battle with the Goths) Herennius Etruscus: 24 (co-ruled with dad for a month then get killed alongside with dad in the battle with the Goths). Hostilian: age unknown but bust make him look around late 20s (co-ruled with Trebonianus Gallus, unknown cause of death) Trebonianus Gallus: 47 (assassinated by usurpers) Volusianus: 23 (co-ruled with Trebonainus Gallus; assassinated by usurpers) Aemilius: 43 (ruled for 2 months; murdered by his own soldiers) (253 AD sucks) Valerian: 64 or 68 (captured by Persians, unknown when he died) Gallienus: 50 (co-ruled with Valerian, assassinated) Saloninus: 18 (co-ruled with Gallienius, assassinated) My bet is Gallienus had Valerian and Saloninus assassinated) Claudius Gothicus: 56 (illness by plague) Quintillus: unknown age (3 months in 270, unknown cause of death) Aurelian: 61 (murdered by general) Tacitus: 76 (fever or assassination) Florianus: age unknown (ruled 2 months, assassinated by his own soldiers) Probus: 50 (killed by his own soldiers) Carus: 61 (lightning?) Carinus: age unknown (death unknown) Numerian: age unknown (co-ruled with dad Carinus, assassinated?) Diocletian: 61 (one of my favorite emperors, illness or suicide) Maxiimian: 55 (western Emperor, suicide) Galerius: 53 (eastern Emperor, gangrene) Constantius Chlorus: 56 (western emperor, illness) Valerius Severus: 57 (western emperor, executed or forced suicide) Constantine: 65 (western Emperor, then full Emperor in 324; illness) Maxientius: 36 (western Emperor, killed in civil war with Constantine) Licinius: 59 (western Emperor, executed by Constantine I) Maximinus Daia: 43 (eastern Emperor, Graves Disease his bust does shows the bulging eyes) Valerius Valens: age unknown (eastern Emperor, co-ruled with Licinius, executed) Martinian: age unknown (executed by Constantine) Constantine II: 24 (died in civil war) Constans: 30 (western Emperor, assassinated) Vetranio: age unknown (western emperor for 7 months, natural causes) Constanius II: 44 (western Emperor then full in 350 AD, illness) Julian the Apostate: 32 (killed in battle) Jovian: 34 (natural causes) Valentinian I: 54 (western Emperor; cerebral aneurysm) Valens: 50 (eastern Emperor, battled with Goths) Gratian: 24 (western Emperor, killed by soldiers) Valentinian II: 21 (co-ruled with dad at 4 then full emperor; suicide or murder) Theodosius I: 48 (Western Emperor then full Emperor for one year; edema) Magnus Maximus: 53 (Western Emperor but usurpred by Gratian, executed by Theodosius I) Victor: age unknown (executed by Theodosius I) Eugenius: age unknown (executed by Theodosius I) Honorius: 39 (son of Theodosius I, western Emperor; edema) Arcadius: 31 (son of Theodosius I, eastern Emperor, natural causes) Theodosius II: 49 (co-ruled with dad Arcadius at age one til 394 when dad died; hunting accident) Constantine III: age unknown (co-ruled with Honorius til 409 then full emperor for 2 years, executed by Constantinus III) Constans II: age unknown (co-ruled with Constantinus III, killed by usurpers ) Constantius III: age unknown (didn't ruled long after he killed everyone, natural causes) Valentinian III: 36 (western Emperor, assassinated) Joannes: age unknown (western Emperor, rival of Valentinian III, killed by rivals) Marcian: 65 (eastern Emperor, gout) Petronius Maximus: 58 (western Emperor ruled for 3 months before getting killed by a mob in Rome, dang...) Avitus: 69 (western Emperor, assassinated) Leo I: 73 (eastern emperor, dysentery) Majorian: 41 (western Emperor, assassinated) Libius Severus: age unknown (western Emperor, natural causes or assassinated) Athemius: 52 (western Emperor, executed by Ricimer) Olybrius: age unknown (western Emperor for 5-6 months, natural causes) Glycerius: age unknown( western Emperor, unknown cause of death) Leo II: 7 (co-ruled with Zeno, assassinated) Julius Nepos: 45 (western Emperor, Assassinated) Romulus Augustulus: 47, western emperor, unknown) Zeno: 66 (reigns twice, illness or dysentery) Basilicus: age unknown (executed by starvation...dang again) Marcus: age unknown (co-ruled with Basilicus; executed by starvation) Anastasius I: 87 (natural causes) Justin I: 77 (natural causes) Justinian I: 83 (natural causes)

3:31 HEY I CAN ANSWER THAT! 1.Listening to his wife 2. By consequence, himself

The last known words of Emperor Hadrian are in fact this poem he wrote shortly before his death: « Roving amiable little soul, Body's companion and guest, Now descending for parts Colourless, unbending, and bare Your usual distractions no more shall be there »

“Pay attention only to yourselves, enrich the rich and scorn all others” My dude really hated the plebs

7:13 might have been struck by lighting while on campaign? If that's true, that's super unlucky. But it did save him from a possible assassination like the others so...yay??

Praetorian Guard every 5 minutes: "The Emperor is dead"

Augustus : I found you a city of clay, and left a city of marble Claudius : I ThINk i SHaT MySElF

Augustus' last words, both private and public, are amazing. The publocs ones are of glory, and true. His private ones are touching.

3:07 that's why he was called the philosopher king. Even in the moment of his own death he was teaching.

"you too child?" damn that hurt more than i expected

Their depictions get worse and worse as they get closer to us.

Hey, the deaths by "Praetorian guard" accidents did stop with Constantine, wonder what wonderful measures did he implement to stop these :)

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Your roman history videos are my favorite. I think you and useful charts are my two favorites. Will have to check out your science page

14:03 Thanks I never knew that

"Change the world. My final message."

Love this a lot! Thanks for making this and sharing. Have a great day ☺️

Julius Caesar's last words: "Hello senators, sorry I'm late...What's with the knives?"

Your channel is the only thing keeping me sane and entertained thank you and God bless

That's sad and intriguing at the same time 😮

Praetorian guard: no one can assassinate the emperor if we do it first. Ancient problems require ancients solutions.

I just found this channel and I love it. Nice job

Marcus Aurelius just had a way with words~

Always love Vespasian's.

Me watching this normally: "How interesting" Me watching after Dovahkitty: *spits at screen* "BASED"

Brilliant thank you. Enjoyed it very much ☺️

Thank you Justin !!

Wow. Never been happier to see a video!

I love these ancient word videos!

Its so smart you posted this in August.

awesome vid! keeping pumping out gold for us!, however i think you left out the great Maximus Decimus Meridius! (iykyk) lol

Septimius Severus to his sons: be harmonious Next Emperor in line: *is killed by a brother*

Well done on the last bit.🤘SKOL!

You forgot some - namely Caligula and Otho. Also, you should've mentioned that Nero's words before he was stabbed - which were probably intended to be his last words until a soldier arrived and attempted to stop the blood flow - were "Qualis artifex pereo" - literally "What an artist [I] die", usually translated as "What an artist dies in me".

Vitellius saying "Yet I was your emperor" is the biggest fuck you to Rome

It'd be an interesting curiosity to decipher the meaning of emperors' names. For example Tacitus means "subtle, unspoken" (so no wonder he had no final words, I guess), Pertinax menas "tenacious, obstinate", Commodus is "comfortable, pleasant", etc.

8:48 Licinius was executed 30 years before he was born

keep up the good work

1:12 When your last words are literally “I pissed/shit myself.”

I probably would have gotten rid of the Praetorian guard tbh. They are like 33% the cause of early death in Rome.

Fun fact: the last Western Roman Emperor was named Romulus, the same name who founded the kingdom of Rome before turning into a Republic then the Empire

In the Great Leaders video it said Marcus Aurelius’s last words are unknown but there is a portrait of him giving them

On Carus being struck by lighting, imagine how frightening and demoralizing that would have been to the troops given the beliefs of the Roman deities, it would have been seen as Jupiter himself killing the emperor

Father: "Dont fight eachother my sons" Son: stabbed by brother

My favourite is def Vespasians "Oh dear I believe I am becoming a god" because its a joke about the Senate defying all dead emperors

Sooo... Now I kinda want a video like this with all the byzantine emperors.

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This made me sadder than I thought

"Finally gonna do something to help the empire." Honorius, probably

What an amazing video

Wow good information

Awesome!

I'll never get over the death of Aurelian

well done !

Emperor: takes power Pretorian Guard: And I took that personally

Last time I was this early Romulus Augustulus was emperor

Emperor Valentinian had a bad way to go.

Many of these Roman Emperors have their last words lost in history. Rest in peace.

Somebody gets entitled as emperor: Pretorian guard: - "So you have choosen death".

The Preatorian Guard is really at it with those assassinations

This is very interesting. I wounder how people from the revolutionary war, steampunk era, and WW2 would react to the world today.

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