Orestes (father Of Romulus Augustulus)
Orestes (died 28 August AD 476) was a Roman general and politician of Germanic ancestry, who was briefly in control of the Western Roman Empire in 475–6.
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“The pangs of conscience, where are the pangs of conscience? Orestes and Clytemnestra, Reinhold doesn’t even know the names of those fine folk. He simply hopes, heartily and sincerely, that Franz is dead as a doornail and won’t be found.”
—Alfred Döblin (1878–1957)