Life of Caesar 63.2

2but Strabo the philosopher says[108]108Probably in the "Historical Commentaries" cited in the Lucullus, xxviii. 7. that multitudes of men all on fire were seen rushing up, and a soldier’s slave threw from his hand a copious flame and seemed to the spectators to be burning, but when the flame ceased the man was uninjured; he says, moreover, that when Caesar himself was sacrificing, the heart of the victim was not to be found, and the prodigy caused fear, since in the course of nature, certainly, an animal without a heart could not exist.