---
title: "The Deified Julius · Divus Julius"
author: "Suetonius"
translator: "John C. Rolfe"
languages: [la, en]
shelf: "Classical Latin"
section: 27 of 89
url: https://scriptura.si/works/suetonius-divus-julius-rolfe-1914/27/
cite: "Suetonius, tr. John C. Rolfe, The Deified Julius · Divus Julius, section 27. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/suetonius-divus-julius-rolfe-1914/27/"
---

# The Deified Julius · Divus Julius

*Suetonius, tr. John C. Rolfe*

## 27. Chapter 27

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/suetonius-divus-julius-rolfe-1914/27/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/suetonius-divus-julius-rolfe-1914/27/#p-N

[¶0] Moreover, to retain his relationship and friendship with Pompey, Caesar offered him his sister’s granddaughter Octavia in marriage, although she was already the wife of Gaius Marcellus, and asked for the hand of Pompey’s daughter, who was promised to Faustus Sulla. When he had put all Pompey’s friends under obligation, as well as the great part of the senate, through loans made without interest or at a low rate, he lavished gifts on men of all other classes, both those whom he invited to accept his bounty and those who applied to him unasked, including even freedmen and slaves who were special favourites of their masters or patrons.

> Latin: Ad retinendam autem Pompei necessitudinem ac voluntatem Octaviam sororis suae neptem, quae Gaio Marcello nupta erat, condicionem ei detulit sibique filiam eius in matrimonium petit Fausto Sullae destinatam. Omnibus vero circa eum atque etiam parte magna senatus gratuito aut levi faenore obstrictis, ex reliquo quoque ordinum genere vel invitatos vel sponte ad se commeantis uberrimo congiario prosequebatur,prosequebatur, L²Tσ; persequebatur, Ω. libertos insuper servulosque cuiusque, prout domino patronove gratus quisquis, mss. except M¹ (quivis, G.). esset.

[¶1] In short, he was the sole and ever ready help of all who were in legal difficulties or in debt and of young spendthrifts, excepting only those whose burden of guilt or of poverty was so heavy, or who were so given up to riotous living, that even he could not save them; and to these he declared in the plainest terms that what they needed was a civil war.

> Latin: IamIam, σ; tam,MGX¹; tum, Y. reorum aut obaeratorum aut prodigae iuventutis subsidium unicum ac promptissimum erat, nisi quos gravior criminum vel inopiae luxuriaeve vis urgeret, quam ut subveniri posset a se; his plane palam bello civili opus esse dicebat.