[The History of Rome; Books Nine to Twenty-Six by Titus Livius]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of Rome; Books Nine to Twenty-Six BOOK XXII 4/124
In the territory of Antium, that bloody ears of corn had fallen into the basket as they were reaping.
At Falerii, that the heavens appeared cleft as if with a great chasm; and, that where it had opened, a vast light had shone forth; that the prophetic tablets had spontaneously become less; and that one had fallen out thus inscribed, "Mars shakes his spear." During the same time, that the statue of Mars at Rome, on the Appian way, had sweated at the sight of images of wolves.
At Capua that there had been the appearance of the heavens being on fire, and of the moon as falling amidst rain.
After these, credence was given to prodigies of less magnitude: that the goats of certain persons had borne wool; that a hen had changed herself into a cock; and a cock into a hen: these things having been laid before the senate as reported, the authors being conducted into the senate-house, the consul took the sense of the fathers on religious affairs.
It was decreed that those prodigies should be expiated, partly with full-grown, partly with sucking victims; and that a supplication should be made at every shrine for the space of three days; that the other things should be done accordingly as the gods should declare in their oracles to be agreeable to their will when the decemviri had examined the books.
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