# Quote — Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars

> No one was allowed to leave the theatre during his recitals, however pressing the reason. We read of women in the audience giving birth, and of men being so bored with listening and applauding that they furtively dropped down from the wall at the rear, since the gates were kept barred, or shammed dead and were carried away for burial.

- Author: [Suetonius](https://www.leafyquotes.com/suetonius.md)
- Book: [The Twelve Caesars](https://www.leafyquotes.com/suetonius/the-twelve-caesars.md)
- Original (la): Cantante eo ne necessaria quidem causa excedere theatro licitum est. Itaque et enixae quaedam in spectaculis dicuntur et multi taedio audendi laudandique clausis oppidorum portis aut furtim desiluisse de muro aut morte simulata funere elati.
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> A few months before the murder [of Domitian] a raven perched on the Capitol and croaked out the words: "All will be well!" – a portent which some wag explained in the following verse:
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> There was a raven, strange to tell,
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> Perched upon Jove's own gable, whence
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> He tried to tell us "All is well!" –
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> But had to use the future tense.

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> That he had love-affairs in the provinces, too, is suggested by another of the ribald verses sung during the Gallic triumph:
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> Home we bring our bald whoremonger;
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> Romans, lock your wives away!
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> All the bags of gold you lent him
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> Went his Gallic tarts to pay.

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> Caesar exclaimed: "Let us accept this as a sign from the Gods, and follow where they beckon, in vengeance on our double-dealing enemies. The die is cast."

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