Chosen by flipping open my 1988 Penguin Classics paperback edition of The Annals of Imperial Rome and typing the first thing I saw:
And there you have it.
The-fig-tree called "Ruminalis," in the Place of Assembly, which 830 years earlier had sheltered the babies Romulus and Remus, suffered in this year. Its shoots died and its trunk withered. This was regarded as a portent. However, it revived, with fresh shoots.
And there you have it.
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