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Of the Aruspices, Pontifices, Quindecemviri, Vestals, &c.
The business of aruspices was to look upon the beasts offered in sacrifices, and by them to divine the success of any enterprise.
They took their observations, 1st. From the beasts before they were cut up. 2d. From the entrails of those beasts after they were cut up. 3d. From the flame