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Intra priuatum autem habitum Dionysio Syracusano adhuc se continente Himerae quaedam non obscuri generis femina inter quietem opinione sua caelum conscendit atque ibidem deorum omnium lustratis sedibus animaduertit praeualentem uirum flaui coloris, lentiginosi oris, ferreis catenis uinctum, Iouis solio pedibusque subiectum, interrogatoque iuuene, quo considerandi caeli duce fuerat usa, quisnam esset, audiit illum Siciliae atque Italiae dirum esse fatum solutumque uinculis multis urbibus exitio futurum. quod somnium postero die sermone uulgauit. postquam deinde Dionysium inimica Syracusarum libertati capitibusque insontium infesta fortuna caelesti custodia libertatum uelut fulmen aliquod otio ac tranquillitati iniecit, Himeraeorum moenia inter effusam ad officium et spectaculum eius turbam intrantem ut aspexit, hunc esse, quem in quiete uiderat, uociferata est. id cognitum tyranno causam tollendae mulieris dedit.
Valerius Maximus. Factorvm et Dictorvm Memorabilivm, Libri Novem. Karl Friedrich Kempf. Leipsig. Teubner. 1888. Keyboarding.
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