Ammianus Marcellinus, Rerum Gestarum, Book XIX, chapter 12, section 15

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[15] In fact, the matter was handled exactly as if many men had importuned Claros, ¹ the oaks of Dodona, ² and the once famous oracles of Delphi with regard [p. 543] to the death of the emperor.

1 A city of Ionia near Colophon, the seat of a famous oracle of Apollo.

2 A city of Epirus, in the country of the Molossians, where there was in an oak grove a celebrated temple and oracle of Zeus.

Ammianus Marcellinus. With An English Translation. John C. Rolfe, Ph.D., Litt.D. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1935-1940.

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