Environment / Atmospheric Prodigies

49BC

Event #1312: Many towers destroyed by thunderbolts in Italy during civil war

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Citations:

Text #1686

Pliny. Natural History. Series: Natural History. Vol. 1
[Plin. Nat. 2.56. Translated by H. Rackham. Harvard University Press. 1938. (10 Vols.) p. 283]

In Italy in the time of the Caesarian war people ceased to build towers between Terracina and the Temple of Feronia, as every tower there was destroyed by lightning.

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