Hodie est pr. IX Kal. Ian. 2772 AUC ~ 9 Poseideon in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
n.b. I doubt I’ll be putting out an edition of #Thelxinoe tomorrow morning … Merry Christmas to all those celebrating!
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends civil war for the cities and a plague for forest creatures.
… 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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