Intra privatum autem habitum Dionysio Syracusano adhuc se continente Himerae<a> quaedam non obscuri generis femina inter quietem opinione sua caelum conscendit, atque ibidem deorum omnium lustratis sedibus animadvertit praevalentem virum flavi coloris, lentiginosi oris, ferreis catenis vinctum, Iovis solio pedibusque subiectum, interrogatoque iuvene, quo considerandi caeli duce fuerat usa, quisnam esset, audiit illum Siciliae atque Italiae dirum esse fatum, solutumque vinculis multis urbibus exitio futurum.
While Dionysius of Syracuse still held himself in a private station, a woman of Himera, one of no obscure family, ascended into heaven, as she thought, in her sleep and there, as she went round the dwellings of all the gods, saw a powerfully built man with blond colouring and a freckled face, bound in steel chains, prostrate below Jupiters throne and feet. On asking the young man who had been her guide on her heavenly tour who this was, she was told that he was the dire fate of Sicily and Italy and that once freed of his bonds he would bring destruction to many cities.
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