- El primero fue tan solo delgado, el cual se marchitó rápidamente; y, en consecuencia, la niña que nació no vivió mucho tiempo. * El segundo cobró vigor, lo que auguraba una gran buena fortuna; pero el tercero creció como un árbol. Su padre, Sabino, animado por estos presagios, que fueron confirmados por los augures, le dijo a su madre «que su nieto sería emperador de Roma»; ante lo cual ella soltó una carcajada, extrañándose, según dijo, «de que su hijo hubiese perdido el juicio mientras ella seguía aún en pleno uso de
Afterwards in his aedileship, when Caius Caesar, being enraged at his not taking care to have the streets kept clean, ordered the soldiers to fill the bosom of his gown with dirt, some persons at that time construed it into a sign that the government, being trampled under foot and deserted in some civil commotion, would fall under his protection, and as it were into his lap.
Once, while he was at dinner, a strange dog, that wandered about the streets, brought a man’s hand 739, and laid it under the table.
And another time, while he was at supper, a plough-ox throwing the yoke off his neck, broke into the room, and after he had frightened away all the attendants, (447) on a sudden, as if he was tired, fell down at his feet, as he lay still upon his couch, and hung down his neck.
A cypress-tree likewise, in a field belonging to the family, was torn up by the roots, and laid flat upon the ground, when there was no violent wind; but next day it rose again fresher and stronger than before.
Soñó en Acaya que la buena fortuna de él y de su familia comenzaría cuando a Nerón le sacaran una muela; y sucedió que al día siguiente, habiendo entrado un cirujano en la sala, le mostró una muela que acababa de extraer a Nerón. En Judea, al consultar el oráculo de la