Hodie est a.d. XV Kal Quint. 2772 AUC ~ 27 Thargelion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it should thunder today, it portends periods of burning heat and destruction by mice, moles, and locusts. At the same time, it portends abundance and criminal deaths among the people.
… 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)
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