quid ergo aliud putamus quam divino numine effectum ne destinatum iam immortalitati caput indignam caelesti spiritu Fortunae violentiam sentiret? Augustum vero praeter naturalem animi in omnibus rebus subtiliter perspiciendis vigorem etiam recens et domesticum exemplum ut Artorii somnio obtemperaret admonuit: audiverat enim divi Iulii patris sui uxorem Calpurniam, nocte quam is ultimam in terris egit, in quiete vidisse multis eum confectum vulneribus in suo sinu iacentem, somniique atrocitate vehementer exterritam rogare non destitisse ut proximo die curia se abstineret; at illum, ne muliebri somnio motus id fecisse existimaretur, senatum, in quo ei parricidarum manus allatae sunt, haberi contendisse.
What else then do we think but that by the work of divine power the head already destined to immortality felt no violence of Fortune unmeet for a celestial spirit? Augustus now, besides his minds natural vigour in subtle perception of all matters, was admonished by a recent domestic example to comply with Artorius dream. For he had heard that Calpurnia, his father the divine Julius wife, on the last night her husband spent on earth saw him in her sleep lying in her lap prostrate with many wounds, and that badly frightened by the horror of the dream she kept on begging him to stay away from the senate house next day. But unwilling to let it be thought that he did so in alarm at a womans dream, he persisted in holding a senate, in which the hands of the parricides were raised against him.
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