BOOK II. XXIX. 98-xxxiv. 100 



Opimius and Quintus Fabius," a hoop in tliat of 

 Gaius Porcius and Manius Acilius,* and a 

 red rinff in that of Lucius JuHus and PubUus 



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Rutilius." 



XXX. Portentous and protracted echpses of the Soiar 

 sun occur, such as the one after the murder of '^'^''^**** 

 Caesar the dictator and during the Antonine war 

 which caused almost a whole year's continuous 

 gloom. XXXI. Again, several suns are seen at other 

 once, neither above nor below the real sun but at '^ortents!^^ 

 an angle with it, never alongside of nor opposite to 

 the earth, and not at night but either at sunrise or 

 at sunset. It is also reported tliat once several 

 suns were seen at midday at the Bosphorus, and 

 that these lasted from dawn till sunset. In former 

 times three suns have often been seen at once, for 

 example in the consulships of Spurius Postvimius 

 and Quintus Mucius ^ of Quintus Marcius and Marcus 

 Porcius,'' of Marcus Antonius and PubUus Dolabella/ 

 and of Marcus Lepidus and Lucius Plancus ; ? 

 and our generation saw this during the principate 

 of his late Majesty Claudius, in his consulship, when 

 Cornelius Orfitus was his coUeague.'' It is not stated 

 that more than three suns at a time have ever been 

 seen hitherto. 



XXXII. Also three moons have appeared at once, 

 for instance in the consulship ' of Gnaeus Domitius 

 and Gaius Fannius. 



XXXIII. A Ught from the sky by night, the 

 phenomenon usuaUy caUed ' night-suns,' was seen 

 in the consulshipi of Gaius CaeciUus and Gnaeus 

 Papirius and often on other occasions causing 

 apparent dayUght in the night. 



XXXIV. In the consulsliip * of Lucius Valerius 



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