LIBER II · CAPUT 35
AN OMINOUS APPEARANCE IN THE HEAVENS, THAT WAS SEEN ONCE ONLY
Latine · Mayhoff 1906
Scintillam visam e stella cadere et augeri terrae adpropinquantem ac, postquam lunae magnitudine facta sit, inluxisse ceu nubilo die, dein, cum in caelum se reciperet, lampadem factam semel umquam proditur Cn. Octavio C. Scribonio consulibus. vidit id Silanus proconsul cum comitatu suo.
English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57
We have an account of a spark falling from a star, and increasing as it approached the earth, until it became of the size of the moon, shining as through a cloud; it afterwards returned into the heavens and was converted into a lampas; this occurred in the consulship of Cn. Octavius and C. Scribonius. It was seen by Silanus, the proconsul, and his attendants.