The Annals and the Histories · Ann. 13.58

That same year, the fact that the tree in the Comitium, which 840 years before had sheltered the infancy of Romulus and Remus, was impaired by the decay of its boughs and by the withering of its stem, was accounted a portent, till it began to renew its life with fresh shoots.

Cornelius Tacitus · trans. Church & Brodribb, 1876
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