Res Gestae

Augustulus,[*](His title Augustus was changed to Augustulus in mockery of, or perhaps because of, his youth.) who was called Romulus by his parents before he mounted the throne, was made emperor by his father, the patrician Orestes. Then Odoacar made his appearance with a force of Sciri[*](See Pliny, N.H. iv. 97, and note 1, p. 507; they served as mercenaries in the Roman army, but revolted.) and killed the patrician Orestes at Placentia, and his brother Paulus at the Pine Grove,[*](Pineta is a late form for Pinetum. ) outside the Classis[*](Classes, or Classis, was a part of Ravenna near the harbour of the praetorian fleet.) at Ravenna.

Then he entered Ravenna, deposed Augustulus from his throne, but in pity for his tender years, granted him his life; and because of his beauty he also gave him an income of six thousand gold-pieces[*](See Amm. xx. 4, 18, note 5.) and sent him to Campania,[*](Cf. Jordanes, 46, in Lucullano Campaniae castello exilii poena damnavit. ) to live there a free man with his relatives. Now his father Orestes was a Pannonian, who joined with Attila at the time when he came to Rome, and was made his secretary, a position from which he had advanced to the rank of patrician.