"Deos enim reliquos accepimus, Caesares dedimus."
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Others we receive for gods, Caesars we make such. — Praefatio (tr. Samuel Speed, 1678)
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Valerius Maximus
was a 1st-century Latin writer and author of a collection of historical anecdotes: Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri IX ("Nine books of memorable deeds and sayings", also known as De factis dictisque memorabilibus or Facta et dicta memorabilia). He worked during the reign of (14 to 37 AD).
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