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Divination by inspecting the liver of animals.

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Usage examples (7)
  • Why would such an important ritual drink like "wine" be borrowed into Etruscan from Latin when everything else in the religious sphere including the practice of...
  • Thus hepatoscopy, demanding long training and influencing political action (and, doubtless, calling for ingenuity and tact in interpretations), assumed great importance...
  • In Roman times, Philostratus gives an account of the trial of Apollonius of Tyana,16 accused of human hepatoscopy by sacrificing a boy in the practice of magic arts...
  • In Roman times, Philostratus gives an account of the trial of Apollonius of Tyana, (16) accused of human hepatoscopy by sacrificing a boy in the practice of magic arts...
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