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 hepatoscopy appears to go in the reverse direction?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The diffusion of the Italian terms for 'wine' from Etruscan] Reference

Thus hepatoscopy, demanding long training and influencing political action (and, doubtless, calling for ingenuity and tact in interpretations), assumed great importance in Babylonia and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV] Reference

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 against the Emperor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of Modern Medicine] Reference

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 against the Emperor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913] Reference

In order to do so, a system of interpretation was evolved, less logical and less elaborate than the system of hepatoscopy, which was analyzed in the preceding chapter, but nevertheless meriting attention both as an example of the pathetic yearning of men to peer into the minds of the gods, and of the influence that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913] Reference

In order to do so, a system of interpretation was evolved, less logical and less elaborate than the system of hepatoscopy, which was analyzed in the preceding chapter, but nevertheless meriting attention both as an example of the pathetic yearning of men to peer into the minds of the gods, and of the influence that Babylonian-Assyrian astrology exerted throughout the ancient world "(Jastrow) .17.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of Modern Medicine] Reference

8. hepatoscopy 8. fingernails or claws.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 2] Reference