Crassus

Upon this, the Armenian rode away. Now, as Crassus was taking his army across the Euphrates at Zeugma,[*](A town in Syria, on the right bank of the Euphrates, deriving its name from a bridge of boats there made across the river.) many extraordinary peals of thunder crashed about them, and many flashes of lightning also darted in their faces, and a wind, half mist and half hurricane, fell upon their raft, breaking it up and shattering it in many places.

The place where he was intending to encamp was also smitten by two thunderbolts. And one of the general’s horses, richly caparisoned, violently dragged its groom along with it into the river and disappeared beneath the waves. It is said also that the first eagle which was raised aloft, faced about of its own accord.[*](Cf. Dio Cassius, xl. 18. )