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title: "The Deified Julius · Divus Julius"
author: "Suetonius"
translator: "John C. Rolfe"
languages: [la, en]
shelf: "Classical Latin"
section: 66 of 89
url: https://scriptura.si/works/suetonius-divus-julius-rolfe-1914/66/
cite: "Suetonius, tr. John C. Rolfe, The Deified Julius · Divus Julius, section 66. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/suetonius-divus-julius-rolfe-1914/66/"
---

# The Deified Julius · Divus Julius

*Suetonius, tr. John C. Rolfe*

## 66. Chapter 66

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[¶0] When they were in a panic through reports about the enemy’s numbers, he used to rouse their courage not by denying or discounting the rumours, but by falsely exaggerating the true danger. For instance, when the anticipation of Juba’s coming filled them with terror, he called the soldiers together and said: Let me tell you that within the next few days the king will be here with ten legions, thirty thousand horsemen, a hundred thousand light-armed troops, and three hundred elephants. Therefore some of you may as well cease to ask further questions or make surmises and may rather believe me, since I know all about it. Otherwise, I shall surely have them shipped on some worn out craft and carried off to whatever lands the wind may blow them.

> Latin: Fama vero hostilium copiarum perterritos non negando minuendove, sed insuper amplificando ementiendoque confirmabat. Itaque cum expectatio adventus lubae terribilis esset, convocatis ad contionem militibus: Scitote, inquit, paucissimis his diebus regem adfuturum cum decem legionibus, equitum triginta, levis armaturae centum milibus, elephantis trecentis. Proinde desinant quidam quaerere ultra aut opinari mihique, qui compertum habeo, credant; aut quidem vetustissima nave impositos quocumque vento in quascumque terras iubebo avehi.