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7.22 CHAP. 22.(22.)—INSTANCES OF REMARKABLE ACUTENESS OF HEARING.

We have one instance on record of remarkable acuteness of hearing; the noise of the battle, on the occasion when Sybaris [Note] was destroyed, was heard, the day on which it took place, at Olympia. [Note] But, as to the victory over the Cimbri, [Note] and that over Perseus, the news of which was conveyed to Rome by the Castors, [Note] they are to be looked upon in the light of visions and presages proceeding immediately from the gods.

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