DIO'S ROME AN HISTORICAL NARRATIVE ORIGINALLY COMPOSED IN GREEK DURING THE REIGNS OF SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS, GETA AND CARACALLA, MACRINUS, ELAGABALUS AND ALEXANDER SEVERUS: AND NOW PRESENTED IN ENGLISH FORM BY HERBERT BALDWIN FOSTER, A.B. (Harvard), Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins), Acting Professor of Greek in Lehigh University THIRD VOLUME _Extant Books 45-51 (B.C. 44-29)_. 1906 VOLUME CONTENTS Book Forty-five Book Forty-six Book Forty-seven Book Forty-eight Book Forty-nine Book Fifty Book Fifty-one DIO'S ROMAN HISTORY 45 VOL. 3.--1 The following is contained in the Forty-fifth of Dio's Rome: About Gaius Octavius, who afterward was named Augustus (chapters 1-9). About Sextus, the son of Pompey (chapter 10). How Caesar and Antony entered upon a period of hostility (chapters 11-17). How Cicero delivered a public harangue against Antony (chapters 18-47). Duration of time, the remainder of the year of the 5th dictatorship of C. Iulius Caesar with M. Aemilius Lepidus, Master of the Horse, and of his 5th consulship with Marcus Antonius. (B.C. 44 = a. u. 710.)[1] (_BOOK 45, BOSSEVAIN_.) [B.C. 44 (_a. u_.710)] [-1-] This was Antony's course of procedure.--Gaius Octavius Copia,--this was the name of the son of Caesar's niece, Attia,--came from Velitrae in the Volscian country, and having been left without a protector by the death of his father Octavius he was brought up in the house of his mother and her husband, Lucius Philippus, but on attaining maturity spent his time with Caesar. The latter, who was childless, based great hopes upon him and was devoted to him, intending to leave him as successor to his name, authority, and supremacy. He was influenced largely by Attia's explicit affirmation that the youth had been engendered by Apollo. While sleeping once in his temple, she said, she thought she had intercourse with a serpent, and through this circumstance at the end of the allotted time bore a son. Before he came to the light of day she saw in a dream her womb lifted to the heavens and spreading out over all the earth; and the same night Octavius thought the sun rose from her vagina. Hardly had the child been born when Nigidius Figulus, a senator, straightway prophesied for him sole command of the realm. [2]