...courtiers conversing together in a low tone of voice about the comet, " This hairy star," he remarked, " does not concern me; it menaces rather the King of the Parthians, for he is hairy and I am bald." Feeling his end approach, " I think," said he, " that I am becoming a god." ' The death of the Emperor...

...a low tone about a comet then visible. But he treated the matter lightly, saying, "This hairy star does not concern me; it menaces rather the king of the Parthians, for he is hairy and I am bald." Throughout the Middle Ages comets seem to have been regarded as especially presaging the death of kings....

...philosophical and very unusual view of the matter, for he is reported as having said : " This hairy star does not concern me : it menaces rather the King of the Parthians, for he is hairy, and I am bald." VIRGIL compares a hero in his shining armour to a comet : — " Non secus ac liquida si quando nocte...

...portent. That emperor, in alluding to the comet of AD 79, is reported to have said : "This hairy star does not concern me ; it menaces rather the King of the Parthians, for he is hairy and I am bald." Vespasian, all the same, died shortly afterwards ! Pliny, in his natural history, gives several instances...

...philosophical and very unusual view of the matter, for he is reported as having said : " This hairy star does not concern me : it menaces rather the King of the Parthians, for he is hairy, and I am bald." VIRGIL compares a hero in his shining armour to a comet : — " Non secus ac liquida si quando nocte...

...appeared as he was nearing his end. He is reported to have said (according to Suetonius), "This hairy star does not concern me; it menaces rather the king of...the Parthians, for he is hairy and I am bald." But it is hard to say how much of this statement is bravado and how much is conviction. But Seneca's premonition,...

...voice about the comet, gazing significantly in his direction meanwhile, he remarked: "This hairy star does not concern me; it menaces rather the King of the Parthians, for he is hairy and I am bald." Feeling his end approach, he observed, "I think that I am becoming a god." Virgil compares a hero in...

...He replied, "It is fitting that an Emperor should die standing." Then he remarked, "This hairy star does not concern me; it menaces rather the King of the Parthians, for he is hairy and I am bald." Feeling his end approach, he observed, "I think that I am becoming a god." Virgil (BC 70-19) wrote...