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title: "The Deified Julius · Divus Julius"
author: "Suetonius"
translator: "John C. Rolfe"
languages: [la, en]
shelf: "Classical Latin"
section: 70 of 89
url: https://scriptura.si/works/suetonius-divus-julius-rolfe-1914/70/
cite: "Suetonius, tr. John C. Rolfe, The Deified Julius · Divus Julius, section 70. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/suetonius-divus-julius-rolfe-1914/70/"
---

# The Deified Julius · Divus Julius

*Suetonius, tr. John C. Rolfe*

## 70. Chapter 70

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[¶0] Again at Rome, when the men of the Tenth clamoured for their discharge and rewards with terrible threats and no little peril to the city, though the war in Africa was then raging, he did not hesitate to appear before them, against the advice of his friends, and to disband them. But with a single word, calling them citizens, instead of soldiers, he easily brought them round and bent them to his will; for they at once replied that they were his soldiers and insisted on following him to Africa, although he refused their service. Even then he punished the most insubordinate by the loss of a third part of the booty and of the land intended for them.

> Latin: Decimanos autem Romae cum ingentibus minis summoque etiam urbis periculo missionem et praemia flagitantes, ardente tunc in Africa bello, neque adire cunctatus est, quanquam deterrentibus amicis, neque dimittere sed una voce, qua Quirites eos pro militibus appellarat, tam facile circumegit et flexit, ut ei milites esse confestim responderint et quamvis recusantem ultro in Africam sint secuti; ac sic quoque seditiosissimum quemque et praedae et agri destinati tertia parte multavit.