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title: "The Deified Julius · Divus Julius"
author: "Suetonius"
translator: "John C. Rolfe"
languages: [la, en]
shelf: "Classical Latin"
section: 88 of 89
url: https://scriptura.si/works/suetonius-divus-julius-rolfe-1914/88/
cite: "Suetonius, tr. John C. Rolfe, The Deified Julius · Divus Julius, section 88. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/suetonius-divus-julius-rolfe-1914/88/"
---

# The Deified Julius · Divus Julius

*Suetonius, tr. John C. Rolfe*

## 88. Chapter 88

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[¶0] He died in the fifty-sixth year of his age, and was numbered among the gods, not only by a formal decree, but also in the conviction of the vulgar. For at the first of the games which his heir Augustus gave in honour of his apotheosis, a comet shone for seven successive nights, rising about the eleventh hour, and was believed to be the soul of Caesar, who had been taken to heaven; and this is why a star is set upon the crown of his head in his statue. It was voted that the hall in which he was slain be walled up, that the Ides of March be called the Day of Parricide, and that a meeting of the senate should never be called on that day.

> Latin: Periit sexto et quinquagensimo aetatis anno atque in deorum numerum relatus est, non ore modo decernentium sed et persuasione volgi. Siquidem ludis, quos primos consecratoprimos consecrato, Basle ed. of 1546 ; primo consecratos, Ω. ei heres Augustus edebat, stella crinita per septem continuos dies fulsit exoriens circa undecimam horam, creditumque est animam esse Caesaris in caelum recepti; et hac de causa simulacro eius in vertice additur stella. Curiam, in qua occisus est, obstrui placuit Idusque Martias Parricidium nominari, ac ne umquam eo die senatus ageretur.

*Note: About an hour before sunset.*