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title: "The Deified Julius · Divus Julius"
author: "Suetonius"
translator: "John C. Rolfe"
languages: [la, en]
shelf: "Classical Latin"
section: 2 of 89
url: https://scriptura.si/works/suetonius-divus-julius-rolfe-1914/2/
cite: "Suetonius, tr. John C. Rolfe, The Deified Julius · Divus Julius, section 2. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/suetonius-divus-julius-rolfe-1914/2/"
---

# The Deified Julius · Divus Julius

*Suetonius, tr. John C. Rolfe*

## 2. Chapter 2

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/suetonius-divus-julius-rolfe-1914/2/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/suetonius-divus-julius-rolfe-1914/2/#p-N

[¶0] He served his first campaign in Asia on the personal staff of Marcus Thermus, governor of the province. Being sent by Thermus to Bithynia, to fetch a fleet, he dawdled so long at the court of Nicodemes that he was suspected of improper relations with the king; and he lent colour to this scandal by going back to Bithynia a few days after his return, with the alleged purpose of collecting a debt for a freedman, one of his dependents. During the rest of the campaign he enjoyed a better reputation, and at the storming of Mytilene Thermus awarded him the civic crown.

> Latin: Stipendia prima in Asia fecit Marci Thermi praetoris contubernio; a quo ad accersendam classem in Bithyniam missus desedit apud Nicomeden, non sine rumore prostratae regi pudicitiae; quem rumorem auxit intra paucos rursus dies repetita Bithynia per causam exigendae pecuniae, quae deberetur cuidam libertino clienti suo. Reliqua militia secundiore fama fuit et a Thermo in expugnatione Mytilenarum corona civica donatus est.

*Note: A chaplet of oak leaves, given for saving the life of a fellow-citizen, the Victoria Cross of antiquity.*