"Vae, puto, deus fio... imperatorem stantem oportet mori."
— Vespasian

January 1, 1970

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Woe is me, I think I'm turning into a god... An emperor should die on his feet. — Last words, anticipating his apotheosis, in Suetonius, Life of Vespasian, ch. 23, 4