Spurinna

Family: Roman · Role: soothsayer · First appears: Julius Caesar 81

Life events

• Spurinna warned Caesar that danger threatened him before the ides of March passed.(Julius Caesar 81)
  • With: Julius Caesar
  • “The soothsayer Spurinna, observing certain ominous appearances in a sacrifice which he was offering, advised him to beware of some danger, which threatened to befall him before the ides of March were past.”
• Caesar entered the senate-house despite the omens and mocked Spurinna as a false prophet.(Julius Caesar 81 · 📍 Pompey’s senate-house)
  • With: Julius Caesar
  • “but still, disregarding all omens, he entered the senate-house, laughing at Spurinna as a false prophet, because the ides of March were come, without any mischief having befallen him.”

Julius Caesar 81

• with Julius Caesar (Spurinna warned Caesar of impending danger.) “The soothsayer Spurinna, observing certain ominous appearances in a sacrifice which he was offering, advised him to beware of some danger, which threatened to befall him before the ides of March were past.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.