Legacy
The Latin title of the Holy Roman Emperor was usually "Imperator Augustus", which conveys the modern understanding of "emperor" rather than the original Roman sense (i.e., the "first citizen" of the Republic). Although the German word for "emperor" is "Kaiser", a relatively clear derivative of "caesar", that was the only one of the three principal titles of the Latin- and Greek-speaking Roman emperors that was not regularly used in Latin by the German-speaking Holy Roman emperors.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)