Iam quod L. Lentulus litus praenavigans in quo Cn. Pompeii Magni perfidia Ptolomaei regis interempti corpus concisae scaphae lignis comburebatur, ignarus casus eius, cum ipsi Fortunae erubescendum rogum vidisset, ilitonibus dixit qui scimus an hac flamma Cn. Pompeius cremetur? divinitus missae vocis miraculum est.
When L. Lentulus was sailing past the shore on which the body of Cn. Pompeius Magnus, slain by the treachery of king Ptolemy, was being burned with the wood of a boat cut up for the purpose, he saw the pyre for which Fortune herself should have blushed and, though unaware of Pompeys fate, spoke thus to his comrades in arms: How do we know whether Cn. Pompeius is not being cremated in this fire? The utterance was divinely inspired, a wonder.
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