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title: "The Deified Julius · Divus Julius"
author: "Suetonius"
translator: "John C. Rolfe"
languages: [la, en]
shelf: "Classical Latin"
section: 32 of 89
url: https://scriptura.si/works/suetonius-divus-julius-rolfe-1914/32/
cite: "Suetonius, tr. John C. Rolfe, The Deified Julius · Divus Julius, section 32. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/suetonius-divus-julius-rolfe-1914/32/"
---

# The Deified Julius · Divus Julius

*Suetonius, tr. John C. Rolfe*

## 32. Chapter 32

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[¶0] As he stood in doubt, this sign was given him. On a sudden there appeared hard by a being of wondrous stature and beauty, who sat and played upon a reed; and when not only the shepherds flocked to hear him, but many of the soldiers left their posts, and among them some of the trumpeters, the apparition snatched a trumpet from one of them, rushed to the river, and sounding the war-note with mighty blast, strode to the opposite bank. Then Caesar cried: Take we the course which the signs of the gods and the false dealing of our foes point out. The die is cast, said he.

> Latin: Cunctanti ostentum tale factum est. Quidam eximia magnitudine et forma in proximo sedens repente apparuit harundine canens ; ad quem audiendum cum praeter pastores plurimi etiam ex stationibus milites concurrissent interque eos et aeneatores, rapta ab uno tuba prosilivitprosilivit, ΜπTthe other mss. have prosiluit. ad flumen et ingenti spiritu classicum exorsus pertendit ad alteram ripam. Tunc Caesar: Eatur, inquit, quo deorum ostenta et inimicorum iniquitas vocat. Iacta alea est, inquit.