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title: "The Deified Julius · Divus Julius"
author: "Suetonius"
translator: "John C. Rolfe"
languages: [la, en]
shelf: "Classical Latin"
section: 47 of 89
url: https://scriptura.si/works/suetonius-divus-julius-rolfe-1914/47/
cite: "Suetonius, tr. John C. Rolfe, The Deified Julius · Divus Julius, section 47. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/suetonius-divus-julius-rolfe-1914/47/"
---

# The Deified Julius · Divus Julius

*Suetonius, tr. John C. Rolfe*

## 47. Chapter 47

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[¶0] They say that he was led to invade Britain by the hope of getting pearls, and that in comparing their size he sometimes weighed them with his own hand; that he was always a most enthusiastic collector of gems, carvings, statues, and pictures by early artists; also of slaves of exceptional figure and training at enormous prices, of which he himself was so ashamed that he forbade their entry in his accounts.

> Latin: Britanniam petisse spe margaritarum, quarum amplitudinem conferentem interdum sua manu exegisse pondus; gemmas, toreumata, signa, tabulas operis antiqui semper animosissime comparasse; servitia rectiora politioraque inmenso pretio, et cuius ipsum etiam puderet, sic ut rationibus vetaret inferri.