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wounds ttat might come from above. In tlie consnlsliip of 
L. Paulus and C. Marcellus it rained wool, round the castle 
of Carissanum, near which place, a year after, T. Annius Milo 
was killed. It is recorded, among the transactions of that 
year, that when he was pleading his own cause, there was a 
shower of baked tiles. 
CHAP. 58. (57.) — EATTLIKO OE AEMS A^D THE SOUIirD OE 
TEUMPETS HEAED m THE SKY. 
"We have heard, that during the war with the Cimbri, the 
rattling of arms and the sound of trumpets were heard through 
the sky, and that the same thing has frequently happened 
before and since ^ Also, that in the third consulship of 
Marius, armies were seen in the heavens by the Amerini and 
the Tudertes, encountering each other, as if from the east and 
west, and that those from the east were repelled^. It is not 
at all wonderful for the heavens themselves to be in flames^, 
and it has been more frequently observed when the clouds 
have taken up a great deal of fire. 
CHAP. 59. (58.) — OE STOISTES THAT HAYE EALLEK EEOM THE 
CLOIJDS^. THE OPIKIO^r OE ANAXAaOEAS EESPECTIlSra 
THEM. 
The Grreeks boast that Anaxagoras^, the Clazomenian, in 
the second year of the 78th Olympiad, from his knowledge 
of what relates to the heavens, had predicted, that at a certain 
wool mentioned below, i.e. a light flocculent substance, was perhaps 
volcanic. 
1 Armorum sonitum toto 0-ermania coelo 
Audiit. — ^Yirgil, Greor. i. 474, 475. 
" .... in Jovis Yicilini templo, quod in Compsano agro est, arma con- 
crepuisse." Livy, xxiv. 44. 
2 See Plutarch, by Langhorne ; Marius, iii. 133. 
3 See Livy, iii. 5 & 10, xxxi. 12, xxxii. 9, et alibi. 
^ I have already had occasion to remark, concerning this class of phse- 
nomena, that there is no doubt of their actual occurrence, although their 
origin is still unexplained. 
s The hfe of Anaxagoras has been written by Diogenes Laertius. We 
have an ample account of liim by Enfield in the Greneral Biography, in 
loco ; he was born B.C. 500 and died B.C. 428. 
