Das Volk glaubte, es sei die Seele Cäsars, die am Himmel erschienen war, um den Feierlichkeiten zu Ehren des Verstorbenen beizuwohnen. ###>He had been the right arm of Caesar, and by the time of the erection of the above mentioned statue, he was not only consul but the designated flamen Divi Iulii, the predestined high priest of the new god.