Hodie est a.d. III Non. Jun. 2774 AUC ~ 23 Thargelion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
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‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends a burning and drying wind so severe that not only grain but even soft fruit will be dried up and shrivel.
… 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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