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The art or practice of divination.

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  • However I have a fresh entry just itching to be written about the Etruscan Piacenza Liver, a bronze model of a sheep's liver created for the ritualistic practice called...
  • And need I mention the already-proven importation of haruspicy from Anatolia yet again?
  • Both mirrors suggest nothing more that vinum, mixed perhaps with some venena, was a great help in haruspicy.
  • It is the inner regions that directly impact on haruspicy and probably have little bearing to the other forms of divination.
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