Memini me apud Varronem philosophum, virum accuratissime doctum atque eruditum, cum alia eiusdem modi, tum hoc etiam legere: Trallibus de eventu Mithridatici belli magica percontatione consultantibus puerum in aqua simulacrum Mercuri contemplantem quae futura erant CLX versibus cecinisse.
I recall having read various things of the same kind in the philosopher Varro, a man of the most exact scholarship and erudition; one of them was that when the people of Tralles used magic to inquire about the outcome of the Mithridatic war, a boy gazing at a reflection of Mercury in water gave a prophecy of the future in a hundred and sixty lines of poetry.
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