Note 183 — Chapter II · VALERIUS MAXIMUS—A REPERTORY FOR SPEAKERS

VI. ix. 15: “C. Caesar cuius uirtutes aditum sibi in caelum struxerunt.... Parua igitur summa clarissimum mundi sidus in piratico myoparone rependi Fortuna uoluit”; and, on Julius’s care to fall with decency before his assassins, IV. v. 6: “in hunc modum non homines exspirant, sed dii immortales sedes suas repetunt”; cf. VIII. ix. 3; IX. xv. 2.