Summary: Ancient Roman ghost stories!
Commentary: I like how ghost stories haven't changed in ~2000 years. It's still vague self fulfilling prophecies:
come to inform him of the future events of his life: that he should go back to Rome, to enjoy high honours there, and return to that province invested with the proconsular dignity, and there should die.
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though there were no symptoms in his case that led those about him to despair, he instantly gave up all hope of recovery; judging, apparently, of the truth of the future part of the prediction by what had already been fulfilled
And the stories are things he didn't see, but some guy he totally trusts did:
This story I believe upon the credit of others
Fun to see how some things are still the same.
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