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title: "The Deified Julius · Divus Julius"
author: "Suetonius"
translator: "John C. Rolfe"
languages: [la, en]
shelf: "Classical Latin"
section: 64 of 89
url: https://scriptura.si/works/suetonius-divus-julius-rolfe-1914/64/
cite: "Suetonius, tr. John C. Rolfe, The Deified Julius · Divus Julius, section 64. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/suetonius-divus-julius-rolfe-1914/64/"
---

# The Deified Julius · Divus Julius

*Suetonius, tr. John C. Rolfe*

## 64. Chapter 64

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/suetonius-divus-julius-rolfe-1914/64/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/suetonius-divus-julius-rolfe-1914/64/#p-N

[¶0] At Alexandria, while assaulting a bridge, he was forced by a sudden sally of the enemy to take to a small skiff; when many others threw themselves into the same boat, he plunged into the sea, and after swimming for two hundred paces, got away to the nearest ship, holding up his left hand all the way, so as not to wet some papers which he was carrying, and dragging his cloak after him with his teeth, to keep the enemy from getting it as a trophy.

> Latin: Alexandriae circa oppugnationem pontis eruptione hostium subita conpulsus in scapham pluribus eodem praecipitantibus, cum desiluissetdedisset, P'O; the other mss. havedesilisset. in mare, nando per ducentos passus evasit ad proximam navem, elata laeva, ne libelli quos tenebat madefierent, paludamentum mordicus trahens, ne spolio poteretur hostis.