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Haruspicy (Entrail-Reading)

Divination by inspecting the entrails — especially the liver — of a sacrificed animal, a craft Rome inherited from the Etruscans.

How it traveled

  1. Hellenica
    Athens · -354
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Key passages(14)

Xenophon, Hellenica 3.4.15↗applies

Hellenica · Xenophon

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Xenophon, Hellenica 4.7.7↗explains

Hellenica · Xenophon

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Pausanias, Description of Greece 9.39.6↗explains

Description of Greece · Pausanias

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Strabo, Geography 7.2.3↗explains

Geography · Strabo

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Xenophon, Anabasis 6.4.15↗explains

Anabasis · Xenophon

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Pausanias, Description of Greece 6.2.4↗explains

Description of Greece · Pausanias

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Pausanias, Description of Greece 6.2.5↗explains

Description of Greece · Pausanias

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Herodotus, Histories 4.69.2↗explains

Histories · Herodotus

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Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae 9.24↗applies

Deipnosophistae · Athenaeus of Naucratis

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Herodotus, Histories 9.37.1↗explains

Histories · Herodotus

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Pausanias, Description of Greece 1.34.4↗explains

Description of Greece · Pausanias

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Xenophon, Anabasis 6.1.24↗explains

Anabasis · Xenophon

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Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae 4.74↗explains

Deipnosophistae · Athenaeus of Naucratis

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Herodotus, Histories 2.82.2↗explains

Histories · Herodotus

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