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Upon his last birth-day, he had brought a full-sized statue of the Timenian Apollo from
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Syracuse
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, a work of exquisite art, intending to place it in the library of the new temple;
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but he dreamt that the god appeared to him in the night, and assured him "that his statue could not be erected by him." A few days before he died, the Pharos at
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Capri
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was thrown down by an earthquake. And at
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Misenum
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, some embers and live coals, which were brought in to warm his apartment, went out, and after being quite cold, burst out into a flame again towards evening, and continued burning very brightly for several hours.