Stelle Aunonenses pacem cum rege faciunt S...; (Continuatio Chronicorum Hieronymianorum (458 - 469), Hydatius, Chronicle a. 468, ed. and trans. Burgess, p. 120-3) [5773]

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Text Continuatio Chronicorum Hieronymianorum (458 - 469) Hydatius of Aquae Flaviae
Quotation Aunonenses pacem cum rege faciunt Sueuorum; qui et Lusitaniae et conuentus Asturecensis quaedam loca praedantes inuadunt. (...) Durissimus extra solitum hoc eodem tempore annus hiberni, ueris, aestatis, autumni in aeris et omnium fructuum permutatione diffunditur. Signa etiam aliquanta et prodigia in locis Galleciae peruidentur. In flumine Minio de municipio Lais miliario ferme quinto capiuntur pisces IIII noui uizu et specie, sicut retulere qui ceperant Christiani et religiosi, Hebraeis et Grecis litteris, Latinis autem aerarum numeris insigniti, ita CCCLXV anni circulum continentes. Paruo mensem interuallo haud procul de supradicto municipio in speciem lenticulae uiridissimorum, ut herba, quaedam forma granorum plena amaritudine defluxit e caelo; et multa alia ostenta quae memorare prolixum est.
Translation The Aunonenses made peace with the king of the Sueves, who then launched a marauding expedition against certain places both in Lusitania and in the conventus of Asturica. (...) (246) The year proved unusually harsh at this particular time and the weather and all fruit of winter, spring, summer, and autumn were confused. (247) A number of signs and portents were also witnessed in areas of Gallaecia. In the river Minius, about five miles from the municioium of Aquae Laeae, four fish were caught. As the pious and Christian men who had caught them related, they were of unique appearance and type, and were inscribed with hebrew and Greek letters, but with the numbers of [Spanish] aeras in Latin, which thus embraced the cycle of the three-hundred-and-sixty year. A few months later, not far from the above-mentioned municipium, some type of seeds fell from the sky. These seeds were very green like grass and looked like lentils but were bitter to the taste. And there were many other portents which would take too long to recount.
Quotation source Hydatius, Chronicle a. 468, ed. and trans. Burgess, p. 120-3
Temporal Coverage 468 - 468
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