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Message Subject When was Christ born and when was he baptised? The Year, Month, and Day. Revealed at last!
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Provide the quote by Cassius Dio in writing in this thread on the eclipse preceding the death of Augustus.

This is your thesis. So, present it and defend it. I'm not wading through movies. And I'm not doing your work for you.

Your entire thesis hinges on this one quote by Cassius Dio.
 Quoting: anastasis888

Well lazy person, here is the quote for Cassius Dio:
Cassius Dio “Roman History”, Book 56, Chapter 29: 2-5
[link to penelope.uchicago.edu]

I hope you are intelligent enough to find the correct chapter and the paragraph though.
2 For in the following year, when Sextus Apuleius and Sextus Pompeius were consuls, Augustus set out for Campania, and after superintending the games at Neapolis, passed away shortly afterward at Nola. p67 Indeed, not a few omens had appeared, and these by no means difficult of interpretation, all pointing to this fate for him. 3 Thus, the sun suffered a total eclipse and most of the sky seemed to be on fire; glowing embers appeared to be falling from it and blood-red comets were seen. When a meeting of the senate had been appointed on account of the emperor's illness, in order that they might offer prayers, the senate-house was found closed and an owl sitting on it hooted. 4 A thunderbolt fell upon his statue that stood upon the Capitol and blotted out the first letter of the name "Caesar." This led the seers to declare that on the hundredth day after that he should attain to some divine state. They deduced this from the fact that the letter "C" signifies "one hundred" among the Latins, and the remainder of the word means "god" among the Etruscans. 5 Now these signs appeared beforehand while he was still alive;
 Quoting: Cassius Dio
 
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