Memorable Deeds and Sayings

...an image appeared An apparition seen in a dream by Artorius, the physician of Augustus. and instructed him to warn Augustus—who was then entangled in a heavy illness—not to absent himself from the upcoming battle on account of his poor health. When Caesar Here referring to Octavian (Augustus), the adopted son of Julius Caesar. heard this, he ordered himself to be carried into the battle line in a litter. While he watched over the struggle for victory beyond his physical strength, his camp was captured by Brutus. What else can we think, except that this was achieved by a divine gift original: "diuino munere." A favor from the gods., so that a person already destined for immortality would not suffer the violence of fortune, which is unworthy of a celestial spirit?

Indeed, in addition to the natural vigor of his mind in foresightfully perceiving all things, Augustus was also moved to obey Artorius’s dream by a recent and domestic example. For he had heard that Calpurnia, the wife of his father the Divine Julius Julius Caesar, who had been deified after his death., had seen in a dream during his last night on earth that he lay in her lap, pierced by many wounds. Terrified by the atrocity of the dream, she did not cease begging him to stay away from the Senate House original: "curia." The meeting place of the Roman Senate. the following day. But he, lest he be thought to have acted because he was moved by a woman’s dream, hastened to go to the Senate, where the hands of parricides Those who kill a father or, by extension, a leader of the state. were laid upon him.

No comparison can truly be made between the father and the son, especially since they are joined at the height of divinity; yet already one had built his own path to heaven through his deeds, while for the other a long circle of earthly virtues still remained. Therefore, the immortal gods willed that for the latter, the change in his status was merely pending and known, while for the former it was deferred, so that one glory might be given to heaven, and another might be promised.

On Publius Decius and Marcus Torquatus.

There is also that dream of great wonder and a famous outcome, which occurred on the same night to the two Consuls original: "COSS." An abbreviation for "Consulibus," the two highest-ranking elected officials in the Roman Republic., Publius Decius and Titus...