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Under the consuls P. Posthumius Tubertus 2 and Agrippa Monenius Lanatus, in the year 251 of Rome, in the thickest of the night, lances of fire were seen in the sky. Julius Obsequiens < Costaglioga 1998{.source}
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Sometimes a star shoots out of the sky, or else they are fires, sometimes stationary and still, sometimes rolling through space. We observe various kinds: we have wheels, when a luminous edge surrounds a vast depression in the sky, similar to a deep and circular cavity... When an enormous mass of rounded fire moves through the sky or burns in place; chiasmas when a corner of the sky opens up and through this sort of crevice reveals a flame in the mysterious space. Julius Obsequiens < Costaglioga 1998{.source}
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There are those brilliant meteors that suddenly depart like shooting stars, others remain in place emitting such a bright light that they dispel the darkness and bring back the day until, having consumed what fed them, they become less bright and like a diminishing flame gradually fading away. They often appear in the clouds, better seen above them. Julius Obsequiens < Costaglioga 1998{.source}