From the life of Pompey (very end of [25]):
The people were furious at this suggestion [that Pompey should not be sole commander against the pirates] and, so it is said, raised such a shout that a raven which was flying over the forum was stunned by it and fell down into the crowd. This incident seems to show that when birds fall down in this way it is not due to the air being as it were broken and torn apart so as to make a vacuum, but that they are actually struck by the impact of the voice, which, when it rises up loud and strong, produces in the air a kind of wave or billow.
Sections 24-30 are all about Pompey’s war against the pirates. Much more detail here than in the life of Caesar, although it seems these events take place a bit later (when Caesar was in the Senate).
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