and is moved out of his place; was ready to leap out of his body. Such an effect had this phenomenon of nature on him; as is sometimes the case with men at a sudden fright or unusual sound, and particularly thunder .
----kradih de moi exw, &c. Homer. Il. 10. v. 94, 95. As it was to Augustus Caesar, who always carried about with him the skin of a sea calf, as a preservative; and, on suspicion of a storm rising, would betake himself to some secret and covered place: and to Tiberius, who wore his laurel to secure him from it: and to Caligula, who, on hearing it, would get out of bed and hide himself under it.
Sueton. Vit. August. c. 90. Tiber. c. 69. & Caligul. c. 51. Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 15. c. 30. Vid. Virgil. Georgic. l. 1. v. 330, 331. "Tonitruorum unum genus grave murmur----aliud genus est acre quod crepitum magis dixerint".
Senecae Quaest. Nat. c. 2. c. 27. "Attonitos, quorum mentes sonus ille coelestis loco pepulit".