Dio 45.7.1

Roman History 45.7.1

Author
Cassius Dio
Translator
Earnest Cary

Roman History

45.7.1

Cassius Dio

translated by Earnest Cary

7When, however, a certain star during all those days appeared in the north toward evening, which some called a comet, claiming that it foretold the usual occurrences, while the majority, instead of believing this, ascribed it to Caesar, interpreting it to mean that he had become immortal and had been received into the number of the stars, Octavius then took courage and set up in the temple of Venus a bronze statue of him with a star above his head.