Hodie est a.d. VIII Id. Nov. 2774 AUC ~ 2 Maimakterion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
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While the conflicts in Spain and Sicily raged, Hannibal still clung tenaciously to the gains he had made in Italy. In the years following Cannae, he would experience a dizzying array of successes and setbacks against the Romans ranging from failed alliances with Macedon to the capture and recapture of major Italian cities. Even so, as the years wore on, the scales of Fortune seemed ever more inclined towards Rome….
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
[Saturday] If it thunders today, it portends the ruin of grain by weevils.
[Sunday] If it thunders today, it portends diseases for both humans and animals in the West.
… 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)