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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ro1974, post: 2821322, member: 73358&quot;]Caesar&#039;s Comet was known to ancient writers as the <i><b>Sidus Iulium</b></i> (&quot;Julian Star&quot;) or <i><b>Caesaris astrum</b></i> (&quot;Star of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar" rel="nofollow">Caesar</a>&quot;). The bright, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Comet" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Comet" rel="nofollow">daylight-visible comet</a> appeared suddenly during the festival known as the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludi" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludi" rel="nofollow">Ludi Victoriae Caesaris</a></i> – for which the 44 BC iteration was long considered to have been held in the month of September (a conclusion drawn by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Edmund_Halley" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Edmund_Halley" rel="nofollow">Sir Edmund Halley</a>). The dating has recently been revised to a July occurrence in the same year, some four months after the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Julius_Caesar" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Julius_Caesar" rel="nofollow">assassination of Julius Caesar</a>, as well as Caesar&#039;s own birth month. According to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suetonius" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suetonius" rel="nofollow">Suetonius</a>, as celebrations were getting underway, &quot;a comet shone for seven successive days, rising about the eleventh hour, and was believed to be the soul of Caesar</p><p><br /></p><p>The Comet became a powerful symbol in the political <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda" rel="nofollow">propaganda</a> that launched the career of Caesar&#039;s great-nephew (and adoptive son) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus" rel="nofollow">Augustus</a>. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Divus_Iulius" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Divus_Iulius" rel="nofollow">Temple of Divus Iulius</a> (Temple of the Deified Julius) was built (42 BC) and dedicated (29 BC) by Augustus for purposes of fostering a &quot;cult of the comet&quot;. (It was also known as the &quot;Temple of the Comet Star&quot;.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar%27s_Comet#cite_note-7" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar%27s_Comet#cite_note-7" rel="nofollow">[7]</a>) At the back of the temple a huge image of Caesar was erected and, according to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovid" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovid" rel="nofollow">Ovid</a>, a flaming comet was affixed to its forehead:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar%27s_Comet" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar%27s_Comet" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar&#039;s_Comet</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Looks to me it is more used by Augustus for Julius Ceasar[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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