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Augury and the Taking of Auspices

The Roman state practice of reading the gods' will from the flight, calls, and feeding of birds before any major public act.

How it traveled

  1. Cyropaedia
    Athens · -354
    explains
  2. Quaestiones Romanae
    Chaeronea · 120
    explains

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Quaestiones Romanae · Plutarch

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Quaestiones Romanae · Plutarch

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Quaestiones Romanae · Plutarch

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Quaestiones Romanae · Plutarch

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Quaestiones Romanae · Plutarch

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Quaestiones Romanae · Plutarch

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Constitution of the Lacedaimonians · Xenophon

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On the Cavalry Commander · Xenophon

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