The following is a list of the more important abdications of later

Politics, religion, ideology-desperate ,edgyattempts to shift the onus of responsibility for his own actions: abdications.

Among the most memorable abdications of antiquity may be mentioned that of Sulla the dictator, 79 B.C., and that of the Emperor Diocletian, A.D. 305.

'Before the sun sets to-day, Firmin, trust me, we shall have made our abdications, all of us, and declared the World Republic, supreme and indivisible.