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title: "The Deified Julius · Divus Julius"
author: "Suetonius"
translator: "John C. Rolfe"
languages: [la, en]
shelf: "Classical Latin"
section: 24 of 89
url: https://scriptura.si/works/suetonius-divus-julius-rolfe-1914/24/
cite: "Suetonius, tr. John C. Rolfe, The Deified Julius · Divus Julius, section 24. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/suetonius-divus-julius-rolfe-1914/24/"
---

# The Deified Julius · Divus Julius

*Suetonius, tr. John C. Rolfe*

## 24. Chapter 24

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/suetonius-divus-julius-rolfe-1914/24/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/suetonius-divus-julius-rolfe-1914/24/#p-N

[¶0] When however Lucius Domitius, candidate for the consulship, openly threatened to effect as consul what he had been unable to do as praetor, and to take his armies from him, Caesar compelled Pompeius and Crassus to come to Luca, a city in his province, where he prevailed on them to stand for a second consulship, to defeat Domitius; and he also succeeded through their influence in having his term as governor of Gaul made five years longer.

> Latin: Sed cum Lucius Domitius consulatus candidatus palam minaretur consulem se effecturum quod praetor nequisset adempturumque ei exercitus, Crassum Pompeiumque in urbem provinciae suae Lucam extractos conpulit, ut detrudendi Domitii causa consulatum alterum peterent, perfecitque perper added by Roth. utrumque, ut in quinquennium sibi imperium prorogaretur.

[¶1] Encouraged by this, he added to the legions which he had received from the state others at his own cost, one actually composed of men of Transalpine Gaul and bearing a Gallic name too (for it was called Alauda), which he trained in the Roman tactics and equipped with Roman arms; and later on he gave every man of it citizenship.

> Latin: Qua fiducia ad legiones, quas a re publica acceperat, alias privato sumptu addidit, unam etiam ex Transalpinis conscriptam, vocabulo quoque Gallico-Alauda enim appellabatur, quam disciplina cultuque Romano institutam et ornatam postea universam civitate donavit.

*Note: A Celtic word meaning a crested lark (Plin. N.H. 11. 37) which was the device on the helmets of the legion.*

[¶2] After that he did not let slip any pretext for war, however unjust and dangerous it might be, picking quarrels as well with allied, as with hostile and barbarous nations; so that once the senate decreed that a commission be sent to inquire into the condition of the Gallic provinces, and some even recommended that Caesar be handed over to the enemy. But as his enterprises prospered, thanksgivings were appointed in his honour oftener and for longer periods than for anyone before his time.

> Latin: Nec deinde ulla belli occasione, nene added by Erasmus. iniusti quidem ac periculosi abstinuit, tam foederatis quam infestis ac feris gentibus ultro lacessitis, adeo ut senatus quondam legatos ad explorandum statum Galliarum mittendos decreverit ac nonnulli dedendum eum hostibus censuerint. Sed prospere cedentibuscedentibus, σ; decedentibus, Ω. rebus et saepius et plurium quam quisquam umquam dierum supplicationes impetravit.