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Amidst these enormities, in how much fear and apprehension, as well as odium and detestation, he lived, is evident from many indications.
He forbade the soothsayers to be consulted in private, and without some witnesses being present.
He attempted to suppress the oracles in the neighbourhood of the city; but being terrified by the divine authority of the Praenestine Lots,There were oracles at Antium and Tibur. The " Pranestine Lots"
are described by Cicero, De Divin. xi. 41.
he abandoned the design.
For though they were sealed up in a box, and carried to Rome, yet they were not to be found in it until it was returned to the temple.
More than one person of consular rank, appointed governors of provinces, he never ventured to dismiss to their respective destinations, but kept them until several years after, when he nominated their successors, while they still remained present with him.
In the meantime they bore the title of their office; and he frequently gave them
orders, which they to
Nero was born at Antium, nine months after the death of Tiberius,A.U.C. 791; A.D. 39 upon the eighteenth of the calends of January [15th December], just as the sun rose, so that its beams touched him before they could well reach the earth.
While many fearful conjectures, in respect to his future fortune, were formed by different persons, from the circumstances of his nativity, a saying of his father, Domitius, was regarded as an ill presage, who told his friends who were congratulating him upon the occasion, "That nothing but what was detestable and pernicious to the public, could ever be produced of him and Agrippina."
Another manifest prognostic of his future infelicity occurred upon his lustration day.The purification, and giving the name, took place, among the Romans, in the case of boys, on the ninth, and of girls, on the tenth day.
The customs of the Judaical law were similar. See Matt. i. 59-63.
Luke iii. 21, 22.
For Caius Caesar
being requested by his sister to give the chil