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C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Divus Augustus (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 1 (search)
THAT the family of the Octavii was of the first distinction in Velitrae,A town in the ancient Volscian territory, now called Veletri. It
stands on the verge of the Pontine Marshes, on the road to Naples.
is rendered evident by many circumstances.
For in the most frequented part of the town, there was, not long since, a street named the Octavian; and an altar was to be seen, consecrated to one Octavius, who being chosen general in a war with some neighbouring people, the enemy making a sudden attack, while he was sacrificing to Mars, he immediately snatched the entrails of the victim from off the fire, and offered them half
raw upon the altar; after which, marching out to battle,
he returned victorious. This incident gave rise to a law,
by which it was enacted, that in all future times the entrails should be offered to Mars in the same manner; and
the rest of the victim be carried to the Octavii.
But after the loss of his two sons, of whom Germanicus died in Syria, and Drusus at Rome, he withdrew into Campania;A.U.C. 779 at which time opinion and conversation were almost general, that he never would return, and would die soon.
And both nearly turned out to be true.
For indeed he never more came to Rome; and a few days after leaving it, when he was at a villa of his called the Cave, near Terracina,Terracina, standing at the southern extremity of the Pontine Marshes, on the shore of the Mediterranean. It is surrounded by high calcareous cliffs, in which there are caverns, affording, as Strabo informs us, cool retreats, attached to the Roman villas built round.
during supper a great many huge stones fell from above, which killed several of the guests and attendants; but
he almost hopelessly escaped.