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title: "The Deified Julius · Divus Julius"
author: "Suetonius"
translator: "John C. Rolfe"
languages: [la, en]
shelf: "Classical Latin"
section: 86 of 89
url: https://scriptura.si/works/suetonius-divus-julius-rolfe-1914/86/
cite: "Suetonius, tr. John C. Rolfe, The Deified Julius · Divus Julius, section 86. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/suetonius-divus-julius-rolfe-1914/86/"
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# The Deified Julius · Divus Julius

*Suetonius, tr. John C. Rolfe*

## 86. Chapter 86

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/suetonius-divus-julius-rolfe-1914/86/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/suetonius-divus-julius-rolfe-1914/86/#p-N

[¶0] Caesar left in the minds of some of his friends the suspicion that he did not wish to live longer and had taken no precautions, because of his failing health; and that therefore he neglected the warnings which came to him from portents and from the reports of his friends. Some think that it was because he had full trust in that last decree of the senators and their oath that he dismissed even the armed bodyguard of Spanish soldiers that formerly attended him.

> Latin: Suspicionem Caesar quibusdam suorum reliquit neque voluisse se diutius vivere neque curasse quod valitudine minus prospera uteretur, ideoque et quae religiones monerent et quae renuntiarent amici neglexisse. Sunt qui putent, confisum eum novissimo illo senatus consulto ac iure iurando etiam custodias Hispanorum cum gladiis † adsectantiumadsectantium, conjecture of Ihm; inspectantium, X'; sectantium, Casaubon; adinspectantium, MGϒ. se removisse.

[¶1] Others, on the contrary, believe that he elected to expose himself once for all to the plots that threatened him on every hand, rather than to be always anxious and on his guard. Some, too, say that he was wont to declare that it was not so much to his own interest as to that of his country that he remain alive; he had long since had his fill of power and glory; but if aught befell him, the commonwealth would have no peace, but would be plunged in civil strife under much worse conditions.

> Latin: Alii e diverso opinantur insidias undique imminentis subire semel quam cavere semper sollicitum maluisse. Quidam dicere etiamsollicitum ... etiam, supplied by Roth, except semper, which was added by Ihm. solitum ferunt: non tam sua quam rei publicae interesse, uti salvus esset; se iam pridem potentiae gloriaeque abunde adeptum; rem publicam, si quid sibi eveniret, neque quietam fore et aliquanto deteriore condicione civilia bella subituram.