The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, volume 12: Domitian
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However, they soon aftereffected it, by resolutely demanding the punishment of all those who hadbeen concerned in his assassination. On the other hand, the senate wasso overjoyed, that they met in all haste, and in a full assembly reviledhis memory in the most bitter terms; ordering ladders to be brought in, and his shields and images to be pulled down before their eyes, anddashed in pieces upon the floor of the senate-house passing at the sametime a decree to obliterate his titles every where,... and abolish allmemory of him. A few months before he was slain, a raven on the Capitoluttered these words: "All will be well. " Some person gave the followinginterpretation of this prodigy: (498) Nuper Tarpeio quae sedit culmine cornix. "Est bene, " non potuit dicere; dixit, "Erit. " Late croaked a raven from Tarpeia's height, "All is not yet, but shall be, right. " They say likewise that Domitian dreamed that a golden hump grew out ofthe back of his neck, which he considered as a certain sign of happy daysfor the empire after him.
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