Hodie est a.d. III Id. Ian. 2776 AUC ~ 20 Poseideion II in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders it portends a famine affecting animals.
… 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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