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ably numerous. These he records as having taken place in the 

 years B.C. 272, 265, 263, 160, 127, 122, 116, 114, twice in 106, 

 in two different places in 104, also at two places in 102, in 93 

 and in 90. In the year 122 B.C. afall of oil and milk together is 

 said to have occurred. He tells us also that in B.C. 131 streams 

 of milk flowed into a cistern in Rome; that in the year 102 

 B.C. streams of milk sprang up gushing from the earth ; and 

 that in the year 41 B.C. the ditches ran with milk. 



,With other chroniclers, Wolffhart mentions the sweating of 

 images and other like objects, and also informs us of statues 

 that dripped with blood. Thus, a stone effigy of Antony, in 

 Alba, emitted much blood in the year 41 B.C., and blood 

 trickled from the big toe of a statue of Jupiter in the same 

 place, the year before. In the year 131 B.C., he says, a new 

 shield was spotted with blood ; but he does not tell us whether 

 the blood was supposed to have fallen upon it or to have 

 exuded from it. In B.C. 204 the grain in the fields of Tarra- 

 cina was found to be spotted with blood. Blood dropped from 

 bread, or appeared upon it, in the years B.C. 332 and 89, and A.D. 

 583 and 1 163. In A.D. 1093 bread that had been baked under 

 ashes was stained as if with blood ; and in 1550 it is said that 

 when some soldiers were cutting bread with a knife drops of 

 blood trickled from it and the whole interior was discovered to 

 be full of it. 



Blood is reported to have flowed or trickled from the earth in 

 the years B.C. 263, 208, 163, 144, 140, 94, 92, 91, and 40, and in 

 A.D. 782 and 940. On one of these occasions it is said to have 

 clotted, on another to have flowed in a torrent, and once to 

 have continued running for several days. 



Blood is said to have flowed from, or to have bubbled up in, 

 natural springs in B.C. 272 and in A.D. 1549, 1550, and 1555. 

 These latter events having occurred in what were modern times 

 to Wolffhart, are given with more than his usual particularity. 

 That of 1550 is referred to a meadow in Saxony, and it is said 

 of the blood which bubbled up that if a little were taken in the 

 hand it turned a light yellow. The occurrences of 1555 are lo- 

 cated at Vinaria and are set down to specific dates, as, for 

 example, June 6th and the two days following ; also June 12th 

 and 13th. 



Artificial fountains are also reputed to have flowed with 



