He wished, he said, to have the opportunity to disavow, himself, such claims, and not to have others disavow them for him.
[Sidenote: Caesar's disavowals.] Caesar's disavowals were, however, so faint, and people had so little confidence in their sincerity, that the cases became more and more frequent in which the titles and symbols of royalty were connected with his name.

The people who wished to gain his favor saluted him in public with the name of _Rex_, the Latin word for king.

He replied that his name was Caesar, not _Rex_, showing, however, no other signs of displeasure.

On one great occasion, a high public officer, a near relative of his, repeatedly placed a diadem upon his head, Caesar himself, as often as he did it, gently putting it off.

At last he sent the diadem away to a temple that was near, saying that there was no king in Rome but Jupiter.