Pliny – Letters – Book 7 Letter 27 (On Ghosts)

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It is said farther, that upon his arrival at Carthage, as he was coming out of the ship, the same figure accosted him upon the shore. He looked round and saw the apparition exactly as it had been described to him: it stood before him, beckoning with the finger. When morning came, they found the boy's crown was shorn, and the hair lay scattered about on the floor.

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