And again, many suns have been seen at the same time[1]; not
above or below the real sun, but in an oblique direction, never
near nor opposite to the earth, nor in the night, but either
in the east or in the west. They are said to have been seen
once at noon in the Bosphorus, and to have continued from
morning until sunset. Our ancestors have frequently seen
three suns at the same time[2], as was the case in the consulship of
Sp. Postumius and L. Mucius, of L. Marcius and
M. Portius, that of M. Antony and Dolabella, and that of
M. Lepidus and L. Plancus. And we have ourselves seen
one during the reign of the late Emperor Claudius, when he
1. ubi supra.
2.