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title: "The Deified Julius · Divus Julius"
author: "Suetonius"
translator: "John C. Rolfe"
languages: [la, en]
shelf: "Classical Latin"
section: 57 of 89
url: https://scriptura.si/works/suetonius-divus-julius-rolfe-1914/57/
cite: "Suetonius, tr. John C. Rolfe, The Deified Julius · Divus Julius, section 57. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/suetonius-divus-julius-rolfe-1914/57/"
---

# The Deified Julius · Divus Julius

*Suetonius, tr. John C. Rolfe*

## 57. Chapter 57

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[¶0] He was highly skilled in arms and horsemanship, and of incredible powers of endurance. On the march he headed his army, sometimes on horseback, but oftener on foot, bareheaded both in the heat of the sun and in rain. He covered great distances with incredible speed, making a hundred miles a day in a hired carriage and with little baggage, swimming the rivers which barred his path or crossing them on inflated skins, and very often arriving before the messengers sent to announce his coming.

> Latin: Armorum et equitandi peritissimus, laboris ultra fidem patiens erat. In agmine nonnumquam equo, saepius pedibus anteibat, capite detecto, seu sol seu imber esset; longissimas vias incredibili celeritate confecit, expeditus, meritoria raeda, centena passuum milia in singulos dies; si flumina morarentur, nando traiciens vel innixus inflatis utribus, ut persaepe nuntios de se praevenerit.