Divus Julius
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He was never deterred from any enterprise, nor retarded in the prosecution of it, by superstition.
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When a victim, which he was about to offer in sacrifice, made its escape, he did not therefore defer his expedition against Scipio and
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Juba
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. And happening to fall, upon stepping out of the ship, he gave a lucky turn to the omen, by exclaiming,
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I hold thee fast, Africa.
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To chide the prophecies which were spread abroad, that the name of the Scipios was, by the decrees of fate, fortunate and invincible in that province, he retained in the camp a profligate wretch, of the family of the Cornelii, who, on account of his scandalous life, was surnamed Salutio.