Hodie est pr. Id. Aug. 2776 AUC ~ 26 Hekatombaion in the third year of the 700th Olympiad
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
[Saturday] If it thunders today it portends an abundance of cattle fodder and acorns, but the fir ripening will go badly
[Sunday] If it thunders today it portends there will be a blauge on the bodies of both humans and 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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