THE SCENE: Don’t fuck with the God of Thunder.
THE TEXT: Of Aramulius the story is told that he carried himself haughtily during his entire life and opposed the might of Jupiter in obstinate strife. Indeed, when at harvest time there would come incessant peals of heavy thunder, he used to order his soldiers, at the word of command, with one accord to strike their shields with the swords, and he would claim that the noise made in this fashion surpassed that of thunder. He paid the penalty of his arrogance towards the gods, since he was slain by a stroke of lightning and his entire house was submerged in the Alban lake, and to this day the Romans who dwell near the lake point to evidence of this event in the form of columns which stand up in the lake from the ruins of the royal palace lying in its depths.
– Bibliotheca Historica, Diodorus Siculus, 1st Century BC
