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[2] For it happened that the tomb of Theron,1 which was exceedingly large, was shaken by a stroke of lightning; consequently, when it was being torn down, certain soothsayers, presaging what might happen, forbade it, and at once a plague broke out in the army, and many died of it while not a few suffered tortures and grievous distress.

1 Tyrant of Acragas, 488-472 B.C.; cp. Book 11.53.

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