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…end. It was a hot summer day in 14 CE Augustus woke up feeling extremely weak. He died peacefully and quietly with his wife in his small home near Naples. His body was carried to Rome, where thousands of mourners awaited. His coffin was set ablaze, and through smoke, an eagle was said to rise up through the smoke, and fly to the heavens. The eagle was the great Augustus, going to his place of final