Res Gestae

Now during the reign of Zeno Augustus[*](Emperor of the East, 474–491.) at Constantinople, the patrician[*](See Vol. I, Introduction, p. xxviii; at this time a patricius outranked a praetorian prefect.) Nepos came to the Port of the city of Rome,[*](Portus Augusti, modern Porto; see Index I, Vol. I.) deposed Glycerius,[*](Emperor of the West, 473–474. Nepos forced him to become a priest, and soon after that he was made a—bishop at Salona. Julius Nepos was emperor from 474 to 475.) who was made a bishop, while Nepos himself became emperor at Rome. Presently Nepos came[*](The present participle in this writer is often used as a finite verb.) to Ravenna; he was followed by the patrician Orestes with an army,[*](Nepos had given him command of the troops in Gaul.) and in fear of his coming Nepos embarked on board a ship and fled to Salona,[*](Or Salonae (Caes., B.C. iii. 9, 1 f.), a Dalmatian seaport; modern Split (formerly Spalato) in Yugoslavia.) where he remained for five years; but later he was slain by his own men. Soon after Nepos left Rome Augustulus was made emperor and ruled for ten years.