The Age offers us this excerpt (I think it was actually originally in New Scientist):
... howzabout a theory about how Thucydides could write about an event which happened after he had died? Oh I know ... it was Thucydides' bones who were in that mysterious missing ossuary associated with Jesus' family by James Cameron and other pseudocritical thinkers, so Thucydides actually lived at the turn of the eras ... that works ... yeah ... ok ... now we can reveal how Thucydides wrote about Alexander in the Metz epitome, having learned Latin from, er, Scipio ... yeah ... that's it ...
The idea that animals can predict earthquakes has ancient origins. In 373BC, the Greek historian Thucydides recorded that rats, dogs, snakes and weasels deserted the city of Helice in droves a few days before a catastrophic earthquake.
It was the first in a long line of such anecdotes. There is also no shortage of theories about what might be going on.
... howzabout a theory about how Thucydides could write about an event which happened after he had died? Oh I know ... it was Thucydides' bones who were in that mysterious missing ossuary associated with Jesus' family by James Cameron and other pseudocritical thinkers, so Thucydides actually lived at the turn of the eras ... that works ... yeah ... ok ... now we can reveal how Thucydides wrote about Alexander in the Metz epitome, having learned Latin from, er, Scipio ... yeah ... that's it ...