Daily Roman Fact:

One of the Empires most ineffectual Emperors, Honorius, left the governing of the his half of the Empire to capable advisors and generals. He amused himself with various hobbies and parties. One such hobby was keeping various birds, his favorite of which was a chicken named Rome after the old capital. So enamoured with this chicken was he that when brought news that the city of Rome had 'perished' to a Visigothic army in 410AD he was besides himself with grief, thinking his pet dead. Upon finding out it was merely the namesake of the Empire and not his beloved chicken he was relieved and passed the issue onto someone else.

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