Hodie est pr. XVII Kal. Mai. 2772 AUC ~ 23 Elaphebolion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

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• [BMCR] Yvette Hunt, The ‘Medicina Plinii’: Latin text, translation, and commentary. Scientific writings from the ancient and medieval world. London; New York: Routledge, 2019.
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends a plague.

… adapted from the text and translation of:

Jean MacIntosh Turfa, The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar, in Nancy Thomson de Grummond and Erika Simon (eds.), The Religion of the Etruscans. University of Texas Press, 2006. (Kindle edition)