Stelle Legati de rege Gothorum reuersi ref...; (Continuatio Chronicorum Hieronymianorum (458 - 469), Hydatius, Chronicle a. 467, ed. and trans. Burgess, p. 120-1) [5772]

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Text Continuatio Chronicorum Hieronymianorum (458 - 469) Hydatius of Aquae Flaviae
Quotation Legati de rege Gothorum reuersi referunt portenta in Gallis uisa aliquanta: in conspectu similem ipsi de continuo paruisse solem alium uisum solis occasu; congregatis etiam quodam die concilii sui Gothis tela que habebant in manibus a parte ferri uel acie alia uiridi, alia roseo, alia croceo, alia nigro colore naturalem ferri speciem aliquandiu non habuisse mutata; medio Tolose ciuitatis hisdem diebus e terra sanguinem erupisse totoque diei fluxisse curriculo.
Translation Envoys returning from the king of the Goths brought back news of a number of portents seen in Gaul. [They said] that before their eyes ... another sun, like the real one, seemed to have appeared immediately ... at sunset; that, when the Goths had gathered together on a certain day for thei assembly. the iron sections and the blades of the spears which they carried in their hands had for a time not kept their natural appearance of iron but changed colour: some were green, some red, others yellow or black; and that at this time in the middle of the city of Tolosa blood had burst forth from the ground and flowed for an entire day.
Quotation source Hydatius, Chronicle a. 467, ed. and trans. Burgess, p. 120-1
Temporal Coverage 467 - 467
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