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At last, in the twentieth month, a marvellous thing happened to
Zopyrus, son of the Megabyzus who was among the seven men that
overthrew the Magus. One of his sumpter-mules gave birth to a foal.
Zopyrus, when they told him, not thinking that it could be true,
went and saw the colt with his own eyes; after which he commanded his
servants to tell no one what had come to pass, while he himself
pondered the matter. Calling to mind then the words of the Babylonian
at the beginning of the siege, "Till mules foal ye shall not take our
city" - he thought, as he reflected on this speech, that Babylon
might now be taken. For it seemed to him that there was a Divine
Providence in the man having used the phrase, and then his mule having foaled.
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