hundred[41] knights and many senators, among them Tiberius Cannutius who formerly during his tribuneship had assembled the populace for Caesar Octavianus.  Of the people of Perusia and the rest there captured the majority lost their lives, and the city itself, except the temple of Vulcan and statue of Juno, was entirely destroyed by fire.  This piece of sculpture was preserved by some chance and was brought to Rome in accordance with a vision that Caesar saw in a dream:  there it accorded those who desired to undertake the task permission to settle the city again and place the deity on her original site,—­only they did not acquire more than seven and one-half stadia of the territory.

[B.C. 40 (a. u. 714)]

[-15-] When that city had been captured during the consulship of Gnaeus Calvinus and Asinius Pollio,—­the former holding office the second time,—­other posts in Italy partly perforce and partly voluntarily capitulated to Caesar.  For this reason Fulvia with her children made her escape to her husband, and many of the other foremost men made their way some to him and some to Sextus in Sicily.  Julia, the mother of the Antonii, went there at first and was received by Sextus with extreme kindness; later she was sent by him to her son Marcus, carrying propositions of friendship and with envoys whom she was to conduct to his presence.  In this company which at that time turned its steps away from Italy to Antony was also Tiberius Claudius Nero.  He was holding a kind of fort in Campania, and when Caesar’s party got the upper hand set out with his wife Livia Drusilla and with his son Tiberius Claudius Nero.  This episode illustrated remarkably the whimsicality of fate.  This Livia who then fled from Caesar later on was married to him, and this Tiberius who then escaped with his parents succeeded him in the office of emperor.

[-16-] All this was later.  At that time the inhabitants of Rome resumed the garb of peace, which they had taken off without any decree, under compulsion from the people; they gave themselves up to merrymaking, conveyed Caesar in his triumphal robe into the city and honored him with a laurel crown, so that he enjoyed this decoration as often as the celebrators of triumphs were accustomed to use it.  Caesar, when Italy had been subdued and the Ionian Gulf had been cleared,—­for Domitius despairing of continuing to prevail any longer by himself had sailed away to Antony,—­made preparations to proceed against Sextus.  When, however, he ascertained his power and the fact that he had been in communication with Antony through the latter’s mother and through envoys, he feared that he might get embroiled with both at once; therefore preferring Sextus as more trustworthy or else as stronger than Antony he sent him his mother Mucia and married the sister of his father-in-law, Lucius Scribonius Libo, in the hope that by the aid of his kindness and his kinship he might make him a friend.

[B.C. 44 (a. u. 710)]