Dicebatur enim fatidicarum sortium fidem, quaeve augurales portenderent alites scientissime callens aliquoties praeedixisse futura. Ammianus, xv. 7.
A prophecy, or rather a joke, is related by Sozomen (1. iv. c. 10), which evidently proves (if the crows speak Latin) that Athanasius understood the language of the crows.