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LIBER II · CAPUT 57

RATTLING OF ARMS AND THE SOUND OF TRUMPETS HEARD IN THE SKY

RATTLING OF ARMS AND THE SOUND OF TRUMPETS HEARD IN THE SKY. Complete modern editorial illustration created specifically for this chapter.
RATTLING OF ARMS AND THE SOUND OF TRUMPETS HEARD IN THE SKY · EDITORIAL PLATE II.57 · modern editorial plate
RATTLING OF ARMS AND THE SOUND OF TRUMPETS HEARD IN THE SKY. Complete modern editorial illustration created specifically for this chapter.

Latine · Mayhoff 1906

Armorum crepitus et tubae sonitus auditos e caelo Cimbricis bellis accepimus, crebroque et prius et postea. tertio vero consulatu Mari ab Amerinis et Tudertibus spectata arma caelestia ab ortu occasuque inter se concurrentia, pulsis quae ab occasu erant. ipsum ardere caelum minime mirum est et saepius visum maiore igni nubibus correptis.

English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57

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 west 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.