suetonius 10.2
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- et cum de supplicio cuiusdam capite damnati ut ex more subscriberet admoneretur: quam vellem, inquit, nescire litteras.
- and when he was advised to approve a punishment o fa man whose head was damned, he said: how i wish that I did not know how to write.
- omnis ordines subinde ac memoriter salutavit.
- he greeted all the troops immediately and from memory.
- agenti senatui gratias respondit: cum meruero.
- he responded to the senate giving thanks: when I will have earned it.
- ad campestres exercitationes suas admisit et plebem declamavitque saepius publice;
- he admitted the common people to his field exercises and made speeches quite often to the public;
- recitavit et carmina, non modo domi sed et in theatro, tanta universorum laetitia, ut ob recitationem supplicatio decreta sit eaque pars carminum aureis litteris Iovi Capitolino dicata.
- and he recited poems not just at home but also in the theatre, to such great delight of all that a thanksgiving was declared for the recital and that part of the poems was dedicated in gold letters to capitoline jove.