Well, then, the night before that on which the marriage was consummated,
 the bride dreamed that there was a peal of thunder and that a
 thunder-bolt fell upon her womb, and that thereby much fire was kindled,
 which broke into flames that travelled all about, and then was
 extinguished. At a later time, too, after the marriage, Philip dreamed
 that he was putting a seal upon his wife’s womb; and the device of the
 seal, as he thought, was the figure of a lion. The other seers, now, were led by the vision to suspect that Philip
 needed to put a closer watch upon his marriage relations; but Aristander
 of Telmessus said that the woman was pregnant, since no seal was put
 upon what was empty, and pregnant of a son whose nature would be bold
 and lion-like.