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Woe is me, I think I'm turning into a god... An emperor should die on his feet.

Vae, puto, deus fio... imperatorem stantem oportet mori.

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Last words, anticipating his apotheosis, in Suetonius, Life of Vespasian, ch. 23, 4

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It becomes an emperor to die standing (i.e. "in harness").

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