The influential historian Edward Gibbon, a favorite of our nation's founders, believed that the Western Empire fell in 476 AD with the departure of Romulus Augustus and the accession of King Odovacar of Italy.
颇具影响力的历史学家我国最受欢迎的缔造者爱德华·吉本,认为西罗马是在476年奥古斯都路斯退
,意大利国王奥多亚克登基后灭亡的 。