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LIBER X · CAPUT 27

THE SELEUCIDES

THE SELEUCIDES. Complete modern editorial illustration created specifically for this chapter.
THE SELEUCIDES · EDITORIAL PLATE X.27 · modern editorial plate
THE SELEUCIDES. Complete modern editorial illustration created specifically for this chapter.

Latine · Mayhoff 1906

Seleucides aves vocantur quarum adventum ab Iove precibus inpetrant Cadmi montis incolae, fruges eorum locustis vastantibus. nec unde veniant quove abeant compertum, numquam conspectis nisi cum praesidio earum indigetur.

English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57

Those birds are called seleucides, which are sent by Jupiter at the prayers offered up to him by the inhabitants of Mount Casius, when the locusts are ravaging their crops of corn. Whence they come, or whither they go, has never yet been ascertained, as, in fact, they are never to be seen but when the people stand in need of their aid.