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TIL of the 69 emperors of the unified Roman Empire, from Augustus (14 CE) to Theodosius (395 CE), 43 emperors suffered violent death, that is 62%, died either by assassination (the most common mode of death), suicide or during combat with a foreign enemy of Rome.

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