Environment / Animal Prodigies

203BC

Event #659: Roof-eating ravens, gnawing mice, locust infestation and a deformed colt

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Geographical sites:

  • Capua (click here to focus in map) (see also Pleiades #432754)
    Pleiades_icon Capua settlement, amphitheatre, arch Geocontext: S. Maria Capua Vetere
    Description: An important ancient city of Campania with Villanovan and Etruscan origins.
  • Roma (click here to focus in map) (see also Pleiades #423025)
    Pleiades_icon Roma urban, settlement, temple Geocontext: Roma/Rome
    Description: The capital of the Roman Republic and Empire.
  • Reate (click here to focus in map) (see also Pleiades #413283)
    Pleiades_icon Reate settlement Description: Reate (modern Rieti) was a major Sabine center that came to be captured by Manius Curius Dentatus in late third century BC.
  • Antium (click here to focus in map) (see also Pleiades #422837)
    Pleiades_icon Antium settlement, port, theatre, villa Description: Antium ranked as one of the most important and most powerful centers of Latium and was captured by Rome at the close of the Latin War in the fourth century B.C. Imperial Antium was well known for a number of coastal villas.

Citations:

Text #805

Livy. History of Rome. Vol. 8
[Liv. 30.2.10. Translated by Frank Gardner Moore. Harvard University Press. 1949. (14 Vols.) p. 373]

On the Capitol ravens were believed not only to have torn away gilding with their beaks but even to have eaten it. At Antium mice gnawed a golden wreath. The whole region around Capua was covered by an immense number of locusts, while there was no agreement as to whence they had come. At Reate a colt with five feet was foaled.

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