This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... IN EUTROPIUM LIBER I (XVIII) Semiferos partus metuendaque pignora matri moenibus et mediis audi tum nocte luporum murmur et attonito pecudes pastore locutas et lapidum duras hiemes nimboque minacem sanguineo rubuisse Iovem puteosque cruore 5 mutatos visasque polo concurrere lunas et geminos soles mirari desinat orbis: omnia cesserunt eunucho consule monstra. heu terrae caelique pudor! trabeata per urbes ostentatur anus titulumque effeminat anni. 10 pandite pontifices Cumanae carmina vatis, fulmineos sollers Etruria consulat ignes inmersumque nefas fibris exploret haruspex, quae nova portendant superi. Nilusne meatu devius et nostri temptat iam transfuga mundi 15 se Rubro miscere mari? ruptone Niphate rursum barbaricis Oriens vastabitur armis? an morbi ventura lues? an nulla colono responsura seges? quae tantas expiet iras victima? quo diras iugulo placabimus aras? 20 1 For the consulship of Eutropius see Introduction, p. xv. 2 A mountain in Armenia. AGAINST EUTROPIUS BOOK I (XVIII) Let the world cease to wonder at the births of creatures half human, half bestial, at monstrous babes that affright their own mothers, at the howling of wolves heard by night in the cities, at beasts that speak to their astonied herds, at stones falling like rain, at the blood-red threatening storm clouds, at wells of water changed to gore, at moons that clash in mid heaven and at twin suns. All portents pale before our eunuch consul. O shame to heaven and earth! Our cities behold an old woman decked in a consul's robe who gives a woman's name to the year.1 Open the pages of the Cumaean Sibyl, ye pontifs; let wise Etrurian seers consult the lightning's flash, and the soothsayer search out the awful portent hidden in the entrails. What new dread warning is this...