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title: "The Deified Julius · Divus Julius"
author: "Suetonius"
translator: "John C. Rolfe"
languages: [la, en]
shelf: "Classical Latin"
section: 78 of 89
url: https://scriptura.si/works/suetonius-divus-julius-rolfe-1914/78/
cite: "Suetonius, tr. John C. Rolfe, The Deified Julius · Divus Julius, section 78. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/suetonius-divus-julius-rolfe-1914/78/"
---

# The Deified Julius · Divus Julius

*Suetonius, tr. John C. Rolfe*

## 78. Chapter 78

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/suetonius-divus-julius-rolfe-1914/78/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/suetonius-divus-julius-rolfe-1914/78/#p-N

[¶0] But it was the following action in particular that roused deadly hatred against him. When the Senate approached him in a body with many highly honorary decrees, he received them before the temple of Venus Genetrix without rising. Some think that when he attempted to get up, he was held back by Cornelius Balbus; others, that he made no such move at all, but on the contrary frowned angrily on Gaius Trebatius when he suggested that he should rise.

> Latin: Verum praecipuam et exitiabilem sibi invidiam hinc maxime movit. Adeuntis se cum plurimis honorificentissimisque decretis universos patres conscriptos sedens pro aede Veneris Genetricis excepit. Quidam putant retentum a Cornelio Balbo, cum conaretur assurgere; alii, ne conatum quidem omnino, sed etiam admonentem Gaium Trebatium ut assurgeret minus familiari vultu respexisse.

[¶1] And this action of his seemed the more intolerable, because when he himself in one of his triumphal processions rode past the benches of the tribunes, he was so incensed because a member of the college, Pontius Aquila by name, did not rise, that he cried: Come then, Aquila, take back the republic from me, you mighty tribune; and for several days he would not make a promise to any one without adding, That is, if Pontius Aquila will allow me.

> Latin: Idque factum eius tanto intolerabilius est visum, quod ipse triumphanti et subsellia tribunicia praetervehenti sibi unum e collegio Pontium Aquilam non assurrexisse adeo indignatus sit, ut proclamaverit: Repete ergo a. me Aquila rem publicam tribunus! Et nec destiterit per continuos dies quicquam cuiquam nisi sub exceptione polliceri: Si tamen per Pontium Aquilam licuerit.

*Note: That is, make me restore the republic.*