Dio 48.31.5

Roman History 48.31.5

Author
Cassius Dio
Translator
Earnest Cary

Roman History

48.31.5

Cassius Dio

translated by Earnest Cary

5They not only kept up a general talk to foster his interests, but also at the games in the Circus honoured by loud applause the statue of Neptune carried in the procession, thus expressing their great delight in him. And when on certain days it was not brought out, they took stones and drove the magistrates from the Forum, threw down the statues of Caesar and Antony, and finally, when they could not accomplish anything even in this way, they rushed violently upon those men as if to kill them.