Natural Magic (Magia Naturalis)

...done. For he had a ship, which had been built upon the shore of the sea and could not be brought into the water by many, yet he drew it in quite alone with his instrument, the Trispasto. Everyone who saw and heard of it marveled at this, as did King Hiero (this Hiero was highly praised for his handsome person as well as for his many and manifold virtues; but the Romans, with a powerful and stately host under the Consul and Dictatore Marcello, fell upon him in Siciliam before he was aware of it, and put him and his army to flight and dispersed them, so that even King Hiero