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afterward Cassius and Brutus perished. We read in the works of Alexander ab Alexandro that in Saguntum, at the time when that city suffered destruction at the hands of Hannibal, an infant who had just been born returned into its mother's womb—a most terrible prodigy that portended war.
Likewise, Egnatius recounts in his *Varia Historia* that many wonderful omens were once seen in Rome. Among others, in the year of the world 3749, the Romans heard a six-month-old boy in the vegetable market shouting "Triumph!"
Furthermore, in the 614th year from the founding of the city (138 BC), many statues resembling the human form fell from the sky, and massive globes of flame erupted from Mount Etna. Because of this, according to Julius Obsequens, the diviners predicted a peaceful year.
Again, in the 640th year from the founding of the city, and before Christ,