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3Now, Antony associated himself with Heracles in lineage, and with Dionysus in the mode of life which he adopted, as I have said,[48] and he was called the New Dionysus.[49] The same tempest fell upon the colossal figures of Eumenes and Attalus at Athens, on which the name of Antony had been inscribed, and prostrated them, and them alone out of many. Moreover the admiral’s ship of Cleopatra was called Antonius, and a dire sign was given with regard to it. Some swallows, namely, made their nest under its stern; but other swallows attacked these, drove them out and destroyed their nestlings.
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