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Valerius Maximus, Memorable Deeds And Sayings, 1.7.2

nan Nor was it only the dream of Artorius that gave warning to Augustus, who had a natural perspicacity and vigour to judge of everything, but also a recent and domestic example. For he had heard that Calpurnia the wife of his father Julius, the last night that he lived upon earth, dreamed that she saw her husband lie stabbed and bleeding in her bosom; and being frightened by the strangeness of the dream, she earnestly begged him to abstain from going to the senate the next day. But he, lest he should have been thought to have been moved by a woman's dream, went even so to the senate-house, where the murderers quickly laid violent hands upon him. It is not necessary to make any comparison between the father and the son, both equal in their divinity: for the one had already made way for himself to heaven by his own works, and the other was to let the world enjoy his virtues for a long time. Therefore the gods were only willing that the first should know the approaching change, which the other was to defer; it being enough that one honour should be given to heaven, and another promised.

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1. Cicero, On Divination, 1.119 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 1.119. Quod ne dubitare possimus, maximo est argumento, quod paulo ante interitum Caesaris contigit. Qui cum immolaret illo die, quo primum in sella aurea sedit et cum purpurea veste processit, in extis bovis opimi cor non fuit. Num igitur censes ullum animal, quod sanguinem habeat, sine corde esse posse? †Qua ille rei novitate perculsus, cum Spurinna diceret timendum esse, ne et consilium et vita deficeret; earum enim rerum utramque a corde proficisci. Postero die caput in iecore non fuit. Quae quidem illi portendebantur a dis immortalibus, ut videret interitum, non ut caveret. Cum igitur eae partes in extis non reperiuntur, sine quibus victuma illa vivere nequisset, intellegendum est in ipso immolationis tempore eas partes, quae absint, interisse. 1.119. Conclusive proof of this fact, sufficient to put it beyond the possibility of doubt, is afforded by incidents which happened just before Caesars death. While he was offering sacrifices on the day when he sat for the first time on a golden throne and first appeared in public in a purple robe, no heart was found in the vitals of the votive ox. Now do you think it possible for any animal that has blood to exist without a heart? Caesar was unmoved by this occurrence, even though Spurinna warned him to beware lest thought and life should fail him — both of which, he said, proceeded from the heart. On the following day there was no head to the liver of the sacrifice. These portents were sent by the immortal gods to Caesar that he might foresee his death, not that he might prevent it. Therefore, when those organs, without which the victim could not have lived, are found wanting in the vitals, we should understand that the absent organs disappeared at the very moment of immolation. [53]
2. Cicero, Philippicae, 2.110-2.111 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
3. Josephus Flavius, Jewish War, 2.114, 3.354 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 2.114. 4. I cannot also but think it worthy to be recorded what dream Glaphyra, the daughter of Archelaus, king of Cappadocia, had, who had at first been wife to Alexander, who was the brother of Archelaus, concerning whom we have been discoursing. This Alexander was the son of Herod the king, by whom he was put to death, as we have already related. 3.354. and said, “Since it pleaseth thee, who hast created the Jewish nation, to depress the same, and since all their good fortune is gone over to the Romans, and since thou hast made choice of this soul of mine to foretell what is to come to pass hereafter, I willingly give them my hands, and am content to live. And I protest openly that I do not go over to the Romans as a deserter of the Jews, but as a minister from thee.”
4. Lucan, Pharsalia, 1.185-1.203 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
5. New Testament, Acts, 5.38-5.39 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 5.38. Now I tell you, refrain from these men, and leave them alone. For if this counsel or this work is of men, it will be overthrown. 5.39. But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!
6. Plutarch, Julius Caesar, 63.9 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
7. Plutarch, Tiberius And Gaius Gracchus, 17 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
8. Suetonius, Iulius, 81.3 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
9. Valerius Maximus, Memorable Deeds And Sayings, 1.6.7, 1.6.13, 1.7 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
10. Cassius Dio, Roman History, 45.17 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) 45.17. 1.  In the consulship of Aulus Hirtius and Gaius Vibius (for Vibius was now appointed consul in spite of the fact that his father's name had been posted on the tablets of Sulla) a meeting of the senate was held and opinions expressed for three successive days, including the very first day of the year.,2.  For because of the war which was upon them and the portents, very numerous and unfavourable, which took place, they were so excited that they failed to observe even the dies nefasti and to refrain on those days from deliberating about any of their interests. Vast numbers of thunderbolts had fallen, some of them descending on the shrine of Capitoline Jupiter which stood in the temple of Victory;,3.  also a mighty windstorm occurred which snapped off and scattered the tablets erected about the temple of Saturn and the shrine of Fides and also overturned and shattered the statue of Minerva the Protectress, which Cicero had set up on the Capitol before his exile.,4.  This, now, portended death to Cicero himself. Another thing that frightened the rest of the population was a great earthquake which occurred, and the fact that a bull which was being sacrificed on account of it in the -- temple of Vesta -- leaped up after the ceremony. In addition to these omens, clear as they were, a flash darted across from the east to the west and a new star was seen for several days.,5.  Then the light of the sun seemed to be diminished and even extinguished, and at times to appear in three circles, one of which was surmounted by a fiery crown of sheaves. This came true for them as clearly as ever any prophecy did. For the three men were in power, — I mean Caesar, Lepidus, and Antony, — and of these Caesar subsequently secured the victory.,6.  At the same time that these things occurred all sorts of oracles foreshadowing the downfall of the republic were recited. Crows, moreover, flew into the temple of Castor and Pollux and pecked out the names of the consuls, Antony and Dolabella, which were inscribed there somewhere on a tablet.,7.  And by night dogs would gather together in large numbers throughout the city and especially near the house of the high priest, Lepidus, and howl. Again, the Po, which had flooded a large portion of the surrounding territory, suddenly receded and left behind on the dry land a vast number of snakes; and countless fish were cast up from the sea on the shore near the mouths of the Tiber.,8.  Succeeding these terrors a terrible plague spread over nearly all Italy, because of which the senate voted that the Curia Hostilia should be rebuilt and that the spot where the naval battle had taken place should be filled up. However, the curse did not appear disposed to rest even then,,9.  especially since, when Vibius was conducting the opening sacrifices on the first day of the year, one of his lictors suddenly fell down and died. Because of these events they took counsel during those days, and among the various men who spoke on one side or the other Cicero addressed them as follows:
11. Obsequens, De Prodigiis, 68, 67 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
artorius, m.	Santangelo, Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (2013) 240
asinius pollio, c.	Santangelo, Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (2013) 237
augury	Crabb, Luke/Acts and the End of History (2020) 167
augustus, de uita sua	Santangelo, Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (2013) 237
augustus	Santangelo, Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (2013) 240
calpurnia	Santangelo, Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (2013) 237, 240
capitol	Santangelo, Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (2013) 240
civil war, between caesar and pompey	Santangelo, Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (2013) 237
civil war	Santangelo, Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (2013) 240
cornelius balbus, l.	Santangelo, Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (2013) 240
cumae	Santangelo, Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (2013) 237
dreams	Crabb, Luke/Acts and the End of History (2020) 167, 168; Santangelo, Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (2013) 240
extispicy	Santangelo, Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (2013) 237
fate, εἱμαρμένη/fatum	Crabb, Luke/Acts and the End of History (2020) 168
femininity	Mowat, Engendering the Future: Divination and the Construction of Gender in the Late Roman Republic (2021) 143
fortune, τύχη/fortuna	Crabb, Luke/Acts and the End of History (2020) 168
gender, gender binary	Mowat, Engendering the Future: Divination and the Construction of Gender in the Late Roman Republic (2021) 143
genre	Crabb, Luke/Acts and the End of History (2020) 167
haruspicy	Santangelo, Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (2013) 237
ides of march	Santangelo, Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (2013) 237, 240
irony	Crabb, Luke/Acts and the End of History (2020) 167, 168
julius caesar, c., and haruspicy	Santangelo, Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (2013) 237
julius caesar, c.	Santangelo, Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (2013) 237, 240
julius caesar, gaius	Mowat, Engendering the Future: Divination and the Construction of Gender in the Late Roman Republic (2021) 141, 143, 144
junius brutus, decimus	Mowat, Engendering the Future: Divination and the Construction of Gender in the Late Roman Republic (2021) 143, 144
jupiter, capitolinus	Santangelo, Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (2013) 240
liver	Santangelo, Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (2013) 237
masculinity	Mowat, Engendering the Future: Divination and the Construction of Gender in the Late Roman Republic (2021) 144
minerva	Santangelo, Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (2013) 240
necessity, ἀνάγκη/necessitas	Crabb, Luke/Acts and the End of History (2020) 168
necessity	Crabb, Luke/Acts and the End of History (2020) 168
octavian	Santangelo, Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (2013) 240
oneiromancy	Mowat, Engendering the Future: Divination and the Construction of Gender in the Late Roman Republic (2021) 141, 143, 144
pontifex maximus	Mowat, Engendering the Future: Divination and the Construction of Gender in the Late Roman Republic (2021) 141
portents	Crabb, Luke/Acts and the End of History (2020) 167, 168
prodigy, caesar and	Santangelo, Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (2013) 237
prodigy	Mowat, Engendering the Future: Divination and the Construction of Gender in the Late Roman Republic (2021) 143; Santangelo, Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (2013) 240
rubicon	Santangelo, Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (2013) 237
senate	Santangelo, Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (2013) 240
shakespeare, william	Mowat, Engendering the Future: Divination and the Construction of Gender in the Late Roman Republic (2021) 141
signs	Santangelo, Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (2013) 237
snakes'	Santangelo, Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (2013) 240
superstition	Mowat, Engendering the Future: Divination and the Construction of Gender in the Late Roman Republic (2021) 144
tullius cicero, m.	Santangelo, Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond (2013) 240
tullius cicero, marcus	Mowat, Engendering the Future: Divination and the Construction of Gender in the Late Roman Republic (2021) 144