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Explanation: Emperor Diocletian was the only Roman Emperor who retired - to a little villa in modern-day Croatia, where he spent his remaining time being waited on by his slaves and gardening, like an ordinary aristocrat. When his co-emperors begged him to return to unfuck the mess he made, he wrote back that they would not ask such a thing of him if they saw his serene and peaceful cabbages.