Orosius, Paulus, Historiae Adversum Paganos

a quibus deportatus in Aegyptum, cum magicas ibi artes sollerti ingenio percepisset, breui ipsi regi percarus fuit. nam et prodigiorum sagacissimus erat et somniorum primus intellegentiam condidit, nihilque diuini iuris humanique ei incognitum uidebatur:

Carried off by them into Egypt, when he had there grasped the magic arts with his skilful intelligence, he soon became very dear to the king himself. For he was most shrewd in [reading] prodigies, and was the first to establish the understanding of dreams, and nothing of divine or human law seemed unknown to him:

sed obligamentum hoc magicum in contrarium continuo uersum est; namque diras illas quas fecerant externorum mortes foedissimis suorum caedibus expiauerunt.

But this magical binding was at once turned to the opposite effect; for they atoned for those dreadful deaths of foreigners that they had brought about with the foulest slaughters of their own people.