Dio 44.51.1

Roman History 44.51.1

Author
Cassius Dio
Translator
Earnest Cary

Roman History

44.51.1

Cassius Dio

translated by Earnest Cary

51After this, when the consuls forbade any one except the soldiers to carry arms, they refrained from bloodshed, but set up an altar on the site of the pyre (for the freedmen of Caesar had previously taken up his bones and deposited them in the family tomb), and undertook to sacrifice upon it and to offer victims to Caesar, as to a god.