LIBER II · CAPUT 31
MANY SUNS
Latine · Mayhoff 1906
et rursus soles plures simul cernuntur, nec supra ipsum nec infra, sed ex obliquo, numquam iuxta nec contra terram nec noctu, sed aut oriente aut occidente. semel et meridie conspecti in Bosporo produntur, qui ab matutino tempore duraverunt in occasum. trinos soles et antiqui saepius videre, sicut Sp. Postumio Q. Mucio et Q. Marcio M. Porcio et M. Antonio P. Dolabella et M. Lepido L. Planco cos., et nostra aetas vidit Divo Claudio principe, consulatu eius Cornelio Orfito collega. plures quam tres simul visi ad hoc aevi numquam produntur.
English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57
And again, many suns have been seen at the same time; not above or below the real sun, but in an oblique direction, never near nor opposite to the earth, nor in the night, but either in the east or in the west. They are said to have been seen once at noon in the Bosphorus, and to have continued from morning until sunset. Our ancestors have frequently seen three suns at the same time, as was the case in the consulship of Sp. Postumius and L. Mucius, of L. Marcius and M. Portius, that of M. Antony and Dolabella, and that of M. Lepidus and L. Plancus. And we have ourselves seen one during the reign of the late Emperor Claudius, when he was consul along with Corn. Orfitus. We have no account transmitted to us of more than three having been seen at the same time.