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immediately die, nor could they live any longer.
He also made a copper horse, which healed
all the horses of the illnesses they suffered from
as soon as those ill horses (see note) looked at it. He made
a great and marvelous city on top of an egg,
with such force and power that when anyone
moved the egg the city shook. And the
the more one moved it [the egg], the more severely the
city shook. The city - in the heights and on the plain -
and the fly and the horse that Virgil made of copper
are in Naples and so is the cage with the egg.
They can be seen there, and we have been told this
by those who have gone there and have seen them
many times. Also one day he made the fire go
out throughout Rome, so that no one could have
it unless they requested it from a certain woman, with a
candle or otherwise. This woman was the daughter
of the emperor and a great lady, who previously had
done him great scandal and displeasure. Anyone who
wanted fire could not get it from