Tuas aras tuaque sanctissima templa, dive Iuli, veneratus, oro ut propitio ac faventi numine tantorum casus virorum sub tui exempli praesidio ac tutela delitescere patiaris: te enim accepimus eo die quo purpurea veste velatus aurea in sella consedisti, ne maximo studio senatus exquisitum et delatum honorem sprevisse videreris, priusquam exoptatum civium oculis conspectum tui offerres, cultui religionis, in quam mox eras transiturus, vacasse mactatoque opimo bove cor in extis non repperisse, ac responsum tibi ab Spurinna haruspice pertinere id signum ad vitam et consilium tuum, quod utraque haec corde continerentur.
Worshipping your altars and your most holy temple, divine Julius, I pray that with propitious and favouring deity you may suffer the calamities of these great men to hide beneath the protection and support of your example. We are told that on the day when robed in purple you took your seat on a golden chair, not wishing to seem to slight an honour so loyally selected and offered by the senate, before presenting the longed-for sight of your person to the eyes of the citizenry, you gave some time to the observance of religion, of which you were shortly to become a part; that when a prime ox was slaughtered, you found no heart in his entrails and the diviner Spurinna made you response that this sign concerned your life and your design because both were contained in the heart.
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