Evil Falling Trees

When reading the section (13) where Martin deflects a falling tree, it brought me back to a humorous anecdote from Horace where he describes his escape from a falling tree.  We have mentioned before how there are undertones of Horace throughout this work, in keeping with the looking back to classical Latin that tends to occur during late latin literature.  For Horace his "narrow" escape from the falling tree was incredibly traumatic and he mentions it a number of times, not just in the portion dedicated to his apparent hatred of the tree, which was planted "for the destruction of posterity and the disgrace of the countryside (Ode 2.13)" but also again in Ode 2.17 and Ode 3.4.  This struck me as curious, wondering whether Martin himself mentioned this anecdote about the tree or whether Sulpicius inserted this into his work to include another nod to antiquity and to add to the amazing feats of Martin (even though he states several times that he has related what has been told to him either by Martin or things that were a well known fact, I hesitate to fully believe him, naturally).  If you haven't read this part from Horace, I definitely suggest it.  It is funny and he clearly really hates this tree! :)