24.6
Then, since the story could not be traced to any sure source, but seemed to be current everywhere alike, for the time being the rumour vanished into thin air; but when, a few days afterwards, they were clearly informed of the matter, they were astonished at the tidings which had reached them first, seeing that in the fiction there was truth.
25.1
It is said also that a report of the battle fought by the Italian Greeks at the river SagraA battle between the Locrians and Crotoniats, at some time in the sixth century B.C. reached Peloponnesus on the same day, and so did that of the battle with the Medes at Mycale come on the same day to Plataea.It was when the Greeks at Mycale were about to attack the Persians that a rumour came to them of the victory of the Greeks at Plataea over Mardonius (Herodotus, ix. 100).
25.2
And when the Romans conquered the Tarquins, who had taken the field against them with the Latins, two tall and beautiful men were seen at Rome a little while after, who brought direct tidings from the army. These were conjectured to be the Dioscuri.
25.3
The first man who met them in front of the spring in the forum, where they were cooling their horses, which were reeking with sweat, was amazed at their report of the victory.See the Coriolanus, iii. 4.
