Note 262 — Chapter III · VELLEIUS, CURTIUS AND HISTORY
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E.g. fondness for the epithet caelestis, II. lx.: “spreuit itaque caelestis animus humana consilia”; II. lxiv.: “fulgentissimo et caelesti ore” (of Cicero); lxvi.: “caelestissimi oris” (of Cicero again); civ.: “caelestissimorum eius operum” (of Tiberius); cxxiii.: “animam caelestem deo reddidit” (of Augustus); or such recurrences as “mihi contigit” in II. ci. 2, cxxi. 2, cxxiv. 4.