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7.4 The haruspices<br />

different gods were placated according to its particular marks and characteristics.<br />

See further: Dumézil (1970) 650-9*; Pallottino (1975) 138-47*; van der<br />

Meer(1987).<br />

7.4c Reading the entrails<br />

Livy, History XLl.14.7 and 15.1-4<br />

Oddities in the entrails of sacrificial victims could signify disaster for the<br />

sacrificer - or, if he was a major magistrate, for the city as a whole. Here the<br />

senate orders the consuls to continue sacrificing until they find a victim with<br />

satisfactory organs and achieve favourable omens. (Compare also the events in<br />

6.6a.)<br />

See further: Schilling (1962); Linderski (1986) 2174-5; Rosenstein (1990)<br />

89-90.<br />

In the consulship of Gnaeus Cornelius and Quintus Petilius, on the very day they entered<br />

office

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