LIBER VII · CAPUT 22
INSTANCES OF REMARKABLE ACUTENESS OF HEARING
Latine · Mayhoff 1906
Auditus unum exemplum habet mirabile proelium, quo Sybaris deleta est, eo die quo gestum erat auditum Olympiae. nam fama Cimbricae victoriae Castoresque, Romam qui Persicam victoriam ipso die quo contigit nuntiavere, visus et numinum fuere praesagia.
English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57
We have one instance on record of remarkable acuteness of hearing; the noise of the battle, on the occasion when Sybaris was destroyed, was heard, the day on which it took place, at Olympia. But, as to the victory over the Cimbri, and that over Perseus, the news of which was conveyed to Rome by the Castors, they are to be looked upon in the light of visions and presages proceeding immediately from the gods.