Hodie est a.d. IV Kal. Oct. 2774 AUC ~ 22 Boedromion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
[this one is weird; this is Turfa’s translation] If it thunders, there will be signs revealing great things. Beware lest it pour rain upon the fire of joyful elation.
… 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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